Muhammad Tariq Rafiq aka Tariq Button Kharab was killed in Paich Dara in Afghanistan’s Kunar province recently.

While Tariq’s body has not yet been recovered, TTP said that communication with him had been lost.

Tariq was known as the mastermind behind the attack on Chinese engineers working at the Dasu dam in 2021 that killed 13 people including Chinese engineers.

He is also known to have been involved in the attack on the Chinese language centre in Karachi in 2022 that was carried out by female bombers in collboration with the Balochistan Liberation Army.

An official statement from Pakistani officials is yet to made.