Man believed to be Akhtar Mansoor is seen in undated photo. CBS
Michael Kugelman, Foreign Policy: What Was Mullah Mansour Doing in Iran?
In the wake of the Taliban leader’s death, we’re only now coming to understand just how ties between Tehran and the Taliban are evolving.
On May 21, after a drone strike obliterated a car and its two occupants in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, local officials discovered a Pakistani passport, miraculously intact, amid the smoldering wreckage and two bodies charred beyond recognition. The passport belonged to a man identified as Wali Muhammad. Its photo bore an uncanny resemblance to Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, the supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban targeted by the drone strike, who lay dead close by. According to reports in the Pakistani press, the passport indicated that its owner, presumably Mullah Mansour, had been returning from Iran, where he had been since April 26. He had also traveled there for several weeks in February and March.
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WNU editor: What I find interesting about this story is that his passport survived the drone strike .... Dunya News obtains Wali Muhammad's travel details (Dunya news). As to the question on why was he in Iran .... there is more to this story than what they are telling us, and we will not know the truth (if ever) anytime soon.
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