Pakistan arrests 2 officials for helping slain Taliban chief

A Pakistani spokesman says federal investigators have arrested two officials involved in issuing Pakistani documents to the slain Taliban chief, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, and his family.
Mansour was killed in a US drone strike a week ago in southwestern Balochistan province. A Pakistani passport found near the destroyed car identified him as Wali Mohammad.
Interior Ministry’s spokesman Sarfaraz Hussain says Aziz Ahmed, an official in Balochistan’s capital of Quetta, was arrested on Saturday. Hussain says Ahmed approving a national identity card for Mansour in the name of Wali Mohammad in 2001.
The second official arrested is Riffat Iqbal, with the registration authorities in the port city of Karachi. Hussain says Iqbal was arrested for facilitating the paperwork on Pakistani citizenship for Mansour’s second wife and his children.
Supporters of the slain Taliban chief held funeral prayers across Pakistan for Mansour on Friday.
Some 400 Jamaat-ud Dawa members held the ceremony in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Similar ceremonies were also held in Quetta, Hyderabad and Karachi.
Jamaat-ud Dawa is widely believed to be front group for Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai.
The crowd in Peshawar also chanted US slogans burned an American flag.
The group’s leader, Ghazi Inamullah, told the gathering that “after the humiliation in Afghanistan, US forces are now targeting Pakistan with drone attacks.”

Source : Arab News