nsnbc : Pakistan’s Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said the Pakistani passport and National Identity Card found with the now deceased Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor had not been officially issued by Pakistan.
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal, on Wednesday, informed the Senate in this regard in a written response to lawmakers. In his letter Iqbal has reportedly said that contrary to media reports that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor had been carrying a Pakistan passport and National Identity Card (NIC), it had emerged that the card had actually been issued to a man named Muhammad Wali, son of Shah Muhammad.
The Interior Minister added that three officials from the National Database and Registration Authority have been handed a major punishment after a departmental inquiry against them for issuing fake ID cards had been completed. However, a Pakistani Senator Farhatullah Babar was not satisfied that action had only been taken against lower-level Nadra employees.
The Pakistani passport and the ID card were found with Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor after he was killed in an airstrike on May 21, 2016. Intelligence sources suggest he was killed because of sloppiness in money matters involving Iran. Mullah Mansoor was killed on his way back from a visit to Iran when he was targeted by U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
CH/L – nsnbc 10.11.2017
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