"Retired Pakistani Brigadier-General Mehmood Shah followed Rehman's ascendancy within the TTP's hierarchy.
He notes that TTP members referred to Rehman as "Maulvi" and "Mufti" -- titles bestowed because of his religious education and authority.
"His loss means that the Taliban have lost a key symbolic figure whose understanding of religious issues was very important," Shah says. "Now they don't have anyone among their ranks that they can turn to interpret complex issues of Islamic jurisprudence."
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