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India-Pakistan
Pakistan confirms Mullah Mansour's death, denies handing over body
2016-05-27
[GEO.TV] Pakistain's Foreign Office on Thursday confirmed the killing of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike near the Pak-Afghan border last week, but rejected reports that the Taliban leader’s body had been handed over for burial.

Reports had circulated in the media earlier this week that the Taliban leader's body was taken to Afghanistan and that and he was laid to rest in Spin Boldak district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province.

But, addressing a presser at the Foreign Office here today, the PM's Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy...
dismissed those reports, saying Mansour's body was yet to be handed over to anyone.

"According to the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mansour was traveling under a fake identity," said Sartaj Aziz. "It has been confirmed that it was Mullah Mansour who was killed in the drone strike. We are still waiting for DNA test results of the body, and the body will not be given to anyone until the DNA results are received."

Aziz further said that Mansour's killing had proven to be a setback for talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government, and for peace in the region as a whole.

"Drone strikes have added to the complexity of the Afghan conflict," he said.

Regarding the drone strike, Sartaj Aziz said that Pakistain had protested over the attack to the US, and that it was also raising the issue in the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
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Posted by:Fred

#2  I ws thinking more along the lines of 'ziplock bag'.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-05-27 09:00  

#1  "We gave them a hand, and the head, but nothing else"
Posted by: Frank G   2016-05-27 08:56  

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