*ISLAMABAD – **TTP former Chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor alleged propertiesbeing auctioned in Karachi Pakistan.*
*Assets worth Rs100 million, including a life insurance policy, purportedlybelonging to the man who headed the Afghan Taliban, will go under thehammer by order of a special court in Karachi, Samaa TV has reported.*
An anti-terrorism court has advertisedlink auction of six propertiesowned by former Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who was killedin a US drone strike in Balochistan in 2016. They are:
A plot in Gulshan-e-Maymar, a house in Gulshan-e-Maymar, a flat in SanoberHeights, Gulshan-e-Maymar, a flat in Ammar Tower, Shaheed-e-Millat Road, aflat in Bismillah Terrace, Gulzar-e-Hijri, a flat in Samya Tower,Shaheed-e-Millat Road.
The order comes in a case of terror financing against Mansoor and two closeassociates, who, according to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA),served as his frontmen in Karachi.
The case, which was pending as an inquiry since his death, found secondwind last year as Pakistan faces pressure from the Financial Action TaskForce to crack down on such funding and money laundering.
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The properties, established by the FIA investigation to be owned by MullahMansoor through fictitious identities as well as two frontmen, are locatedin two different areas and were purchased as investments.
The inquiry was opened after a Pakistani identity card and passport, in thename of Muhammad Wali, were discovered at the site of the drone strike atthe time of Mansoor’s killing.
It led to the suspension of at least two low-ranking officials involved inissuing the credentials, according to the then-interior minister ChaudhryNisar.
