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Afghanistan
Taliban Chief Mullah Mansoor had Pakistani passport?
2016-05-22
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The social media have been rife with a viral report suggesting that the successor of Mullah Mohammad had a Pak passport.

A photograph which purportedly shows a photograph of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor printed in the main page of a Pak passport has gone viral on social media following reports of his death in a drone strike.

Mullah Mansoor’s death has been confirmed by the Afghan security institutions including the Afghan Intelligence Agency, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS).

The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
also confirmed the supreme leader of the Taliban group Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a drone strike in Quetta, the lovely provincial capital of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province of Pakistain.

The US Department of Defense first confirmed on Saturday that the Taliban supreme leader was targeted in a drone strike.

"Today, the Department of Defense conducted an Arclight airstrike that targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansur in a remote area of the Afghanistan-Pakistain border region," a statement by Department of Defense said.

The Afghan government also confirmed that the vehicle of Mullah Mansoor was targeted in an Arclight airstrike in the southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal.

However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
the Afghan government said an investigation is underway to confirm that death of Mansoor which would be announced as soon as they receive final information confirming his death.

Posted by:Fred

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