US drone strike kills IS Af-Pak chief

The chief of the Islamic State militant group in Af-Pak region has been killed in a US drone strike in eastern Afghanistan, three days after another top leader of the terror outfit died in a similar American air assault, a media report said on Saturday.

Hafiz Saeed Khan – a former Pakistani Taliban commander who hailed from Pakistan’s tribal region -- was killed in the drone strike in Nangarhar district. Khan was in January appointed the chief of the radical Iraq-and-Syria based outfit in Afghanistan and Pakistan, an area they call Khorasan.