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Urgent: Pakistan does not confirm Taliban leader's death, will carry out DNA test

Xinhua, May 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

Pakistan's Interior Minister Tuesday said he cannot confirm the man who was killed in a U.S. drone strike at the weekend was the Taliban leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. He said a DNA test will be carried out to determine identity of the slain man. Endit