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No confirmation of Afghan Taliban leader’s death: PM Nawaz
[GEO.TV] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Sunday said that reports are still not confirmed that Taliban leader Mullah Mansour has been killed in a US drone strike. Speaking to media representatives after arriving here, the prime minister however confirmed that he had received a phone call from United States Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... on Saturday night at 10:30PM. Kerry had informed him about the drone attack, he added, but maintained that he was informed about the strike after it had been conducted. "Afterwards, I spoke with the army chief as well," he said. Prime Minister Nawaz also said that the foreign office’s statement was a protest against the drone attack. Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... the Pak Foreign Ministry has said that a passport found at the site of a dronezap  targeting Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour bears the name of a Pak man named Wali Muhammad.The purported passport holder was believed to have returned to Pakistain from Iran on May 21, the day of the drone strike targeting Mansour. One of the charred bodies has been identified as a local taxi driver but the badly burnt second body has not. Photos of Muhammad´s passport seen by Rooters show a passing resemblance to some of the old photos available of Mansour, though the ministry did not directly comment on the possibility that Mansour had been travelling under another name. "(Muhammad´s) passport was bearing a valid Iranian visa," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had not been told about the drone strike in advance by Washington. The ministry front man called the attack a violation of Pakistain’s illusory sovereignty. Posted by: Fred 2016-05-23 |
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