Slain Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has a 'life insurance' policy in Pakistan: Report

The insurance company confirmed it to an anti-terrorism court in Karachi at the hearing of the case registered against him and his accomplices by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) last year, reports Dawn News.

It emerged during the investigation that the Taliban leader and his accomplices were involved in generating funds for terrorist activities through the purchase of properties on the basis of ‘forged identities’, the newspaper reported.

He had purchased five properties including plots and houses, estimated to be valued at Rs 32 million, in Karachi.

Sources in the FIA told Dawn that when the matter was taken up before the court, the investigating officer appeared along with an official of the Pakistani insurance company and filed a report on its behalf.

The report explained that it emerged during investigation that Mullah Akhtar Mansour had purchased a ‘life insurance’ policy by using a fake identity and had paid up to Rs300,000 to the company before his death in the drone attack on May 21, 2016. 

While showing willingness to return the principal amount that he had paid, the insurance company had presented a cheque worth Rs300,000 to the investigators for depositing it to the court so that the amount could be deposited in the government treasury, the sources told the Pakistan-based newspaper.

“However, the FIA investigators returned the cheque asking the company to pay the principal amount along with premium so that the whole amount could be deposited to the government treasury,” the sources added.

On Saturday, the insurance company deposited a cheque worth Rs350,000 with the court, which had on Sept 24 ordered the company to deposit the amount paid by the slain Taliban leader for his life insurance policy before he was killed, the judicial sources confirmed to Dawn.