Qazi Zafar, better known as Qari Zafar, was allegedly killed in yesterday's drone attack. According to Dawn, the drone strike on the village of Darpakhel near Miramshah took him out. That drone strike, which I briefly covered yesterday, was said to have killed eight including three "foreigners"- a term often applied to members of none-Pashtun groups including al Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
So who is this "major militant"?
This guy was bad news. According to the Long War Journal(disclaimer; Weekly Standard affiliated), Qari Mohammad Zafar was the leader of Laskhar-e-Jhangvi. Laskhar-e-Jhangvi is a militant group in the tribal areas with close ties to the Taliban and to al Qaeda. They were implicated in the bombing of the Marriot Hotel in Pakistan. Many of this group's camps were thought to be in South Waziristan under the protection of the Mehsud leaders before the Pakstani operation Rah-e-Najat was launched to bring the Mehsud-regions under government control. It is very possible that they moved to North Waziristan like many other militants who had been previously based in the Mehsud-regions of South Waziristan. In addition to this group's role in bombing the Marriott, it is thought that they were before the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Karachi that left one U.S. diplomat dead.
The Dawn report is describing a "Taliban leader", and implicates Qazi Zafar in the attack on the U.S. Consulate. That gives reason enough to assume this is Qari Zafar, the leader of the Laskhar-e-Jhangvi.