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New Taliban chief meets reporters

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The new chief of Pakistani Taliban militants who US and Pakistani officials said might be dead, has surfaced to meet journalists in his stronghold of South Waziristan.

Hakimullah Mehsud became Pakistan's Taliban chief after his predecessor Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US missile strike in August.

Sailab Mehsud, one of the journalists who met the militant chief on 4 October, said Hakimullah Mehsud had vowed revenge for Baitullah's killing.

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