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Pakistani Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, said Sunday that he has information about a meeting on Friday between two Taliban commanders in the northwest tribal region bordering Afghanistan in South Waziristan, which resulted in a violent confrontation and death of a of the rebel leaders.

The Taliban commanders who met were Hakimula Mehsud, number two of Baitul Mehsud and Wali-ur Rehman, a leader of the movement of Mehsud, the Tehreek – e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

We have information that there was a confrontation between the two. I was told later that one of the two died. Do not disclose the name, I am trying to verify information, said Malik, a private Pakistani Geo television.

This internecine struggle after he was responsible for ensuring the Pakistani secret services on Friday that Mehsud, whose head will be offered five million dollars, was killed in an attack.

The government in Islamabad, however, still looking for confirmation on Sunday that news, while a senior official of the U.S. security reiterated that Washington cree that Mehsud was killed in the attack.

Despite the apparent dissension within the insurgency, the analyst Hasan Askari said on Sunday that the Taliban threat has not disappeared.

The current situation shows that the government virtually has no real access to the area, making it difficult to verify the information coming from different sources, he said.

Baitul Mehsud Taliban leader was the most wanted by Pakistan for his alleged involvement in the assassination in 2007 of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, whose widow is now the president of the country.

The secret services, with the tacit cooperation of Islamabad, took place in recent months in northwest Pakistan attacks against the rebels.

On the other hand, at least 21 people died in last hours by new acts of violence by the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan.