Senior Al-Qaeda organiser was killed in drone strike.

Aslam Awan is the senior Al-Qaeda organiser who was reported to be killed by the US drone, targeted in Miranshah on January 10. Media reports says that US officials claimed the killing of Awan, who was the senior organiser of operations in Al-Qaeda. He was in a militants camp in North Waziristan, the most targeted tribal region of Pakistan. Where US demands always Pakistan to launch a military operation against local Taliban and militants.

The TTP - Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Hakinullah Mehsud was also reported killed in another drone attack on January 12 in the same region. But the reports of Hakimullah Mehsud is still unverified and the TTP newly placed spokesman Asimullah Asim had denied the report, “Our Ameer (chief) is very much alive and in full contact with his men,” he told The Express Tribune.

Now again US officials claim killing another top militant of Al-Qaeda Aslam Awam. But still there is no report from any militant group or Al-Qaeda to confirm or deny his death.

The sources described Awan, who also was known by the nom-de-guerre Abdullah Khorasani, as a significant figure in the remaining core leadership of Al-Qaeda, which US officials say has been sharply reduced by the drone campaign. Most of the drone attacks are conducted as part of a clandestine CIA operation. Pakistani officials could not confirm that Awan was killed in the drone attack, but the US official said he was.

“Aslam Awan was a senior al Qaeda external operations planner who was working on attacks against the West. His death reduces al-Qaeda’s thinning bench of another operative devoted to plotting the death of innocent civilians,” a US official said.

A Pakistani security source said; “We thought he was very close to Ayman al Zawahiri Al-Qaeda’s current leader and bin Laden’s long-time deputy, a former Egyptian doctor. But US sources said that American experts did not believe that Awan was particularly close to al Zawahiri. Express Tribune reported.

US once again launched it's "drone operation" in the tribal areas of Pakistan. After the NATO attack on Pakistan check post killing 24 Pakistani soldiers on 25 November, 2011, the US-Pak relations were very crushed and Pakistan took several actions protesting against the attack. The solar Airbase was ordered to leave and the NATO supplies through Pakistan were stopped. US then stopped drone attacks for a little duration and now launched it again in the tribal areas to kill the Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants in the region, as US believes.