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Pakistan confirms killing of Mullah Mansoor in US drone strike
Obama was speaking the day after the militants named Haibatullah Akhundzada as their new leader, elevating a low-profile religious figure in a swift power transition after the death of Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a USA drone strike.
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The body of Mullah Mansoor is still in the custody of Pakistan and will be handed over to the concerned after the DNA test of the body is completed, Sartaj Aziz told the press briefing.
In a statement sent to the media, the Taliban said their new leader is Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, one of Mansour’s two deputies.
Only hours after the Taliban announced its new leader on Wednesday, it claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 10 people and wounded four Afghans, in an attack that targeted a bus carrying employees from a court west of Kabul.
The adviser said that according to the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mansour was traveling with a different name. “While expressing his concerns over the drone strike, the Chief of the Army Staff said such acts of sovereignty violations are detrimental to relations between both countries and are counter-productive for peace process”, army said. He enjoys widespread respect inside the group as a religious scholar but poses no clear threat to other powerful figures – he comes to the job without having commanded military operations or served in a leadership post, experts said.
“The United States has for years held off targeting senior Taliban leaders while they were inside Pakistan’s Balochistan province where Pakistan’s powerful army has long protected them but President (Barack) Obama crossed that line by authorising the drone strike that killed the Taliban leader”, the New York Times said.
The office of President Ashraf Ghani said the latest developments brought the Taliban “yet another opportunity to end and renounce violence, lay down their arms, and resume a normal and peaceful life”.
Despite his young age, Yaqoob has headed the military command of 14 districts of Afghanistan, he maintained.
Reuters said the tape was given to them by two Taliban commanders, but they could confirm its authenticity.
He has been identified by the United Nations as the former chief of the hardline justice system imposed by the Taliban when it ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001. He said, “May the Almighty Allah give fortitude to the family of Mullah Mansour to bear this loss”.
“It has been confirmed that it was Mullah Mansour who was killed in the drone strike”.
After the succession of the new amir at the Taliban Shura meeting, Stanikzai is the first Taliban leader to pledge his allegiance to Maulvi Haibatullah.
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Aziz also accused Washington of “not respecting” an understanding reached earlier this month in four-way talks on the Afghan peace process that efforts for a politically negotiated settlement will continue because years of use of force has not helped achieve the objective.