Thursday, June 2, 2016

After The Drone Killing Of Taliban Leader Mullah Mansour, Who Else Is Hiding In Pakistan?

Bombed vehicle in which Taliban leader Mansour was said to be traveling in.

DW: Mullah Mansour's gone, but who else is hiding in Pakistan?

Time and again Pakistan has denied the presence of high-profile terrorists on its soil, and time and again the US has targeted them inside Pakistan. Should former Taliban chief Mansour's death be a lesson for Islamabad?

On Wednesday, June 1, Pakistan's army chief Raheel Sharif said the US drone strikes within the South Asian nation's territory were a violation of his country's sovereignty. They "must stop," he insisted.

The general was referring to the US aerial attack on May 21 that killed the former Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in the western Balochistan province near Afghanistan.

At first, the Pakistani authorities denied that Mansour was killed in the US drone strike along with his driver.

But on Sunday, May 29, the Islamic country's interior ministry announced that a DNA test confirmed that Mansour had been killed in the attack.

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WNU Editor: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is probably the "biggest fish" hiding in Pakistan today .... a claim that Pakistan has also consistently denied.

1 comment:

RRH said...

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/05/31/hellfire-from-heaven-wont-smash-taliban.html