An officer of the Pakistan Army's Special Services Group (SSG), who had claimed to have captured Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman after his jet was shot down in a dogfight in 2019, has been killed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants, news agency PTI reported, quoting Pakistani sources.

Thirty-seven-year-old Major Syed Moiz Abbas Shah was killed on Tuesday during a clash with Taliban militants in the Sararogha area of South Waziristan, near the Afghan border, stated the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army.

The militants also killed Lance Naik Jibran Ullah, 27 from the Pakistan Army, the statement added.