FIA arrests former NADRA official in connection to ID of Mullah Mansour

Quetta : The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested former assistant director National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Ghulam Muhammad Bugti for suspected involvement in the issuance of identification papers to former Afghan Taliban Chief Mullah Mansour.

Officials recovered a Pakistani identity card and passport under the alias Wali Muhammad from the site of the American drone strike which killed the Taliban chief earlier this month in Balochistan.

Ghulam Bugti, who retired in 2007, had played an important role in issuing an NIC to Mansour in 2002.

Bugti has been shifted to FIA's regional office for interrogation. "The scope of investigation is being widened", an FIA officer was quoted as saying reports Dawn.

Following the incident, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar ordered a probe to find out how identification documents had been granted to the former Taliban chief.

NADRA has also launched an investigation into nearly 2.5 million families across the country in the aftermath of the drone strike.

Former deputy commissioner Qila Abdullah Hafiz Muhammad Tahir is also being interrogated by the FIA in relation to the case of Mansour's ID documents.