Islamabad: Slain Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour bought a life insurance coverage policy utilizing a fake identity in Pakistan and paid Rs 3 lakh in premium ahead of getting killed in a US drone attack, according to a media report on Sunday.
Mansour, who was killed in a US drone strike along the Pakistan-Iran border on May 21, 2016, assumed the leadership of the Taliban in July 2015, replacing its founder and the a single-eyed reclusive extended-time spiritual head Mullah Mohammad Omar who died in 2013.
The information about the insurance coverage policy have been revealed throughout the hearing of a terror funding case against him and his absconding accomplices on Saturday.
The insurance coverage business offered this details to an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Karachi throughout the hearing of the case registered against Mansour and his accomplices by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) final year, Dawn news reported.
It emerged throughout the investigation that the Taliban leader and his accomplices have been involved in producing funds for terrorist activities by means of the acquire of properties on the basis of “forged identities”.
He had bought 5 properties which includes plots and homes, estimated to be valued at Rs 32 million (USD 1,99,812) in Karachi.
The report mentioned that it surfaced throughout the investigation that Mullah Akhtar Mansour had bought the “life insurance” policy by utilizing a fake identity and had paid up to Rs 300,000 to the business ahead of his death in the drone attack on May 21, 2016.
While displaying willingness to return the principal quantity that he had paid, the insurance coverage business had presented a cheque worth Rs 300,000 to the investigators for depositing it to the court so that the quantity could be deposited in the government treasury, the report quoted sources as saying.
“However, the FIA investigators returned the cheque asking the company to pay the principal amount along with the premium so that the whole amount could be deposited to the government treasury,” they mentioned.
On Saturday, the insurance coverage business deposited a cheque worth Rs 350,000 with the court, which had on September 24 ordered the business to deposit the quantity paid by the slain Taliban leader for his life insurance coverage policy.
Also, on a court directive, a home owned by Mullah Mansour in Karachi was auctioned for Rs 92,00,000 and the quantity deposited with the court for depositing it in the government treasury, they mentioned.
The sources mentioned that non-bailable warrants have been once more issued for the arrest of Quetta and Peshawar Mukhtiarkars (land income officers) for not appearing ahead of the court to submit their respective reports as to whether or not the Taliban leader and his accomplices also owned properties in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Previously, the court had ordered the authorities in Peshawar and Quetta to cease salaries of the two officers for not submitting their reports in spite of the court directives.
The judge also sought reports from two private banks on the accounts purportedly obtained and operated by the Afghan Taliban leader and/or his accomplices along with information of the funds deposited/transacted by means of them, the report added.
In 2016, then US president Barack Obama confirmed that Mansour was killed in the US drone strike in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, hailing his death as an “important milestone” in efforts to bring peace to war-torn Afghanistan.
He was issued a Pakistani national identity card in 2005, according to reports in 2016.