Mansour was carrying fake Pakistani passport: US

May 25, 2016 02:10

Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, killed in a US drone strike in Balochistan, was carrying a fake Pakistani passport, the Obama Administration said today as it asserted that Pakistan needs to do more to root out terrorists using its soil to find refuge.

"He (Mullah Mansour) was carrying a fake Pakistani passport," the State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said at his daily news conference, responding to media reports that Taliban chief used a Pakistani passport for his visits abroad for over nine years.

On the reports that he frequently travelled between Karachi and Dubai, and Iran via the Pakistani border town of Taftan, Toner said the US does not have any clarity on his reported visits to Iran.

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