The interior minister said: “The government has arrested the suspects who facilitated Mullah Mansoor in acquiring a Pakistani NIC”.
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His family members said Azam, a father of four children, was the sole earner in his family.
Last month, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani stepped back from attempts to engage Taliban in peace talks, vowing Afghanistan will instead “execute” enemies of the state and undertake preparations for an extended war.
The meeting came a day after Pakistan on Sunday confirmed the killing of Taliban leader after the DNA test.
American and Afghan officials had already confirmed Mansour’s death, but Islamabad had declined to do so before the DNA test results.
Aziz, during a meeting with Afghan Ambassador Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, reportedly expressed serious concerns over the USA drone strikes in its country, reports the Khaama Press.
Speaking to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, which euphemistically referred to Jamaat-ud Dawa as “a self-proclaimed charity”, the group’s leader Ghazi Inamullah said the prayers were offered for the general public to participate in.
Meanwhile, the family of Azam on Sunday registered a police case against the USA government, demanding justice. Though Pakistan has long condemned the drone strikes that first hit South Waziristan in the country’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) in June 2004 and termed them a violation of its sovereignty, it didn’t expect that an attack would also be carried out in Balochistan, which had been specifically mentioned as a “no-go area” for the United States drones.
Mansour was appointed head of the Taliban in July 2015 and was succeeded on Wednesday by his deputy Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada. Hekmatyar went on to say, “Hizb-e-Islami wants the peace agreement which came out of the negotiations with the Kabul government to be finalised and hope it is prepared for the signature”.
The funeral prayers took place even though Mansour’s body is still in the hands of Pakistani authorities for DNA testing.
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Estimates vary of the number of alleged fighters and civilians killed in drone strikes, which have risen since Obama took office in 2009.
