Maulvi Nazir

Early life Nazir was a member of the Kakakhel tribe, which have Sayyid origins and are a part of the Ahmadzai, which are part of the Wazir. He was estimated to have been born in 1975. He had citizenship of both Afghanistan and Pakistan, and owned property in Kandahar until 2010. In Pakistan, he controlled large portions of South Waziristan, and maintained his influence in the Afghan provinces of Paktika, Zabul, Helmand, and Kandahar. In 2006, Mullah Omar endorsed Maulvi Nazir as the emir of South Waziristan. Mullah Omar later disassociated himself from Baitullah Mehsud after he continued to attack Pakistan.

In March 2007, Maulvi Nazir ordered the expulsion of all Uzbeks from Waziristan, and sparked the 2007 Wana clashes against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) led by Tahir Yuldashev. Maulvi Nazir later succeeded in expelling the Uzbeks. Maulvi Nazir, Baitullah Mehsud, and Hafiz Gul Bahadur agreed to form Shura Ittihad ul-Mujahideen to focus on fighting NATO in Afghanistan. Shortly after the establishment of the union, tensions resurged between Baitullah Mehsud and Maulvi Nazir, and the union collapsed. Baitullah Mehsud was later killed on August 5, 2009.

The tensions between Maulvi Nazir and the mainstream TTP continued until a peace deal between Maulvi Nazir and Hakimullah Mehsud was reached in 2011.

Death Maulvi Nazir was killed by an American drone strike on 2 January 2013 in Angur Ada, near the capital of Wana, South Waziristan. Bahawal Khan, also known as Salahuddin Ayubi, was his successor.