This is the al Qaeda militant the USA drones were seeking during the attacks along the Pakistan border.

He is unconfirmed dead due to two strikes. His death still remains unconfirmed. At least to some reports.

Ilyas Kashmiri, also referred to as Maulana Ilyas Kashmiri and Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri

The Pakistani military does not want to confirm his death to some, evidently. Basically, two reasons, increased hostilities and a legitimate use of USA drones. My question, what was he doing within easy reach of Pakistan's military? And why did it take a drone attack to kill him then?

Last Updated: Monday, August 20, 2012, 10:49
Islamabad: Not withstanding (click title to entry - thank you) Taliban's insistence that militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri is dead, senior Pakistani military authorities in South Waziristan tribal region are still reluctant to confirm that he was killed in a US drone strike over a year ago.

"We, on our own level, did some investigations but could not find any clue that could prove his death in the drone attack. We knew that he had arrived in Wana a few days before the June 4 drone attack (last year)," an unnamed Pakistani army official told The News daily.

Pakistani Taliban militants, particularly those considered close to Kashmiri, who was linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, claim that he was injured in the drone strike at Shokai Narray village, located near the towns of Karikot and Ghwakhwa, on June 4, 2011. 

They claim he subsequently died in another drone strike conducted a week later at Danna village near Wana. 

Senior commanders of the Taliban faction in South Waziristan led by Maulvi Nazeer said Kashmiri travelled a few days before his death from Mirali in North Waziristan to Wana. He made the move on the advice of friends due to frequent drone attacks in Mirali that killed a number of his fighters. 

They said Kashmiri held a meeting with Maulvi Nazeer in Wana and then left for Azam Warsak, where the Punjabi Taliban had camps. 

The militants were targeted by drones at Shokai Narray on June 4 last year....

His death escalated retribution attacks by the Taliban. He is stated in this article as the next Osama bin Laden.

Sunday 05 June 2011 
...Senior Punjabi Taliban commanders (click here) and close aides to the top Pakistani militant leader confirmed the killing of Ilyas Kashmiri in the US drone attack and warned they would avenge the "martyrdom" of their "Ameer" from the United States and Pakistan....

Bin Laden was within an arms reach of a military academy and Kashmiri was within an arms length of a military unit. Both al Qaeda and now there are al Qaeda like attacks on NATO forces. What gives?

...Yahya, wanted by Pakistani security agencies and believed to be operating in southern Punjab, said he had received Kashmiri's bloodstained shirt with a piece of paper carrying directives from the top leadership to cut the shirt into pieces for distribution among senior leaders of his organisation, Harkat-ul-Jehad al-Islami (HUJI)....

...He said Kashmiri was considered the master trainer among militant groups operating in the tribal areas. 

"He was a veteran commander. I remember he once gave a lecture on how to avoid losses in drone attacks. He directed all of us to display dresses of women and children on the ropes in our camps and also to put some items in the courtyards so that those operating the drones consider their hideouts as houses where women and children were residing," said the Taliban leader belonging to the Mehsud tribe. 

He said Kashmiri's advice proved very helpful and the militants remained safe in several drone strikes in the region....

Harkat-ul-Jehad al-Islami (HUJI) was banned in Bangledesh in 2005. Why isn't it banned everywhere?

Why aren't these militant religious sects banned in the country's where their presence causes chronic upheaval? They certainly aren't good for the people or the young men recruited into them. If they can't be converted to a true understanding of the Muslim faith they why are they not dealt with in an effective manner. Prison. Saudi Arabia has successful reformation programs for these men. What is the problem already?

By C Raja Mohan

The Pakistan army chief, (click here) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani may be ready to comply with one of the main demands of the Obama administration after the killing of Osama bin Laden in the raid on Abbottabad last month.

At the top of the list of “specific steps” put forward by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to Islamabad last week was the launch of army operations against the Haqqani network, which has destabilised Afghanistan with its sanctuaries in North Waziristan, part of Pakistan’s troubled western borderlands.

The network headed by Afghan Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani is allied with the AfghanTaliban and is said to have close links to al-Qaeda. More importantly, the Haqqani network has been nurtured and supported by the Pakistan army’s spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)....