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Family of driver killed in US strike on Taliban leader file criminal case
Source: The Guardian
Family of driver killed in US strike on Taliban leader file criminal case
Relatives of Mohammad Azam, killed while driving Mullah Mansoor
across Pakistan, lodge a first investigation report for murder
Kiyya Baloch and Jon Boone in Islamabad
Sunday 29 May 2016 14.37 BST
The family of a taxi driver who was killed in a drone strike while driving the leader of the Afghan Taliban across Pakistan have lodged a criminal case against the US government.
Mohammad Azam was killed on 21 May while unwittingly taking Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor from the Iranian border to Quetta, the capital of Balochistan.
The unprecedented attack has thrown into uncertainty possible peace talks with the Taliban as well as US-Pakistan relations.
It has also devastated the family of Azam, who had been working for more than eight years as a driver in Taftan, a tiny desert town next to an important border crossing with Iran.
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Relatives of Mohammad Azam, killed while driving Mullah Mansoor
across Pakistan, lodge a first investigation report for murder
Kiyya Baloch and Jon Boone in Islamabad
Sunday 29 May 2016 14.37 BST
The family of a taxi driver who was killed in a drone strike while driving the leader of the Afghan Taliban across Pakistan have lodged a criminal case against the US government.
Mohammad Azam was killed on 21 May while unwittingly taking Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor from the Iranian border to Quetta, the capital of Balochistan.
The unprecedented attack has thrown into uncertainty possible peace talks with the Taliban as well as US-Pakistan relations.
It has also devastated the family of Azam, who had been working for more than eight years as a driver in Taftan, a tiny desert town next to an important border crossing with Iran.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/29/family-of-driver-mohammad-azam-killed-in-us-strike-on-taliban-leader-mullah-mansoor-file-criminal-case
