Taliban chief also issued local resident certificate

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QUETTA: Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour had obtained not only Pakistani national identity card and passport but also a local resident certificate in the name of Wali Mohammad, according to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) which is investigating the issuance of the documents.

An officer of the FIA said that they had found a local resident certificate showing Wali Mohammad (Mullah Mansour) a resident of Qila Abdullah district of Balochistan and belonging to Kakar tribe.

The certificate was the first Pakistani nationality document issued to the Taliban chief in 1999. It was signed by the then deputy commissioner of Qila Abdullah district, Hafiz Mohammad Tahir.

“We have initiated an investigation into the issuance of the certificate,” the FIA official said.

Hafiz Tahir is already facing an inquiry into attestation of Mullah Mansour’s form for the identity card.

The Taliban leader was killed with driver Mohammad Azam in a US drone strike in Kochkey area of Nushki district on May 21 while going to Quetta from Taftan in a car.

The car was registered in the name of Ahmedullah Khan, a resident of the Gizri area of Karachi.

Further investigation is under way and more arrests cannot be ruled out.

Published in Dawn, June 2nd, 2016

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Khalid Latif

Jun 02, 2016 09:45am

What is Pakistan trying to prove? It appears we are desperately trying to justify the drone attack at Pakistan. Does it require courage to say that Taliban leaders were officially, permitted to stay in Pakistan? Mr Sartaj Aziz had accepted that, in front of the world media. It is a diplomacy in its ugliest form. If Mansour was officially allowed to stay in Pakistan, with his family, why are we looking for his passport and resident card to prove that he possessed fake documents. Which part of our 'stupid' story is correct; Srataj Aziz's statement or the Interior Ministry's blame that he was issued the relevant documents by corrupt NADRA staff?

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brr

Jun 02, 2016 10:46am

All such investigation after the fact is useless. It could have been conducted years ago, but no, the truth had to be hidden from the people. There was no quetta shura, to taliban leadership in Balochistan - that was the official line.

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Malika

Jun 02, 2016 11:14am

The NIA should be taken to task for revealing such information to general public

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Inzy

Jun 02, 2016 11:31am

@Khalid Latif As usual our state and authorities will blame this on some low level staff like NADRA clerks, but reality is that such patronage is coming from the top. Without state patronage such a mass scale forgery is not possible, and the chief of the most wanted terrorist organisation cannot live in Pakistan undetected.

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Ysk

Jun 02, 2016 02:40pm

@Khalid Latif sadly, one of those things where politicians pick up dirty laundry. and yet again, every politician has his own favorite detergent.

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