Taliban jabs Pakistan over US drones: 'don't use your airspace against us'
The Taliban’s acting defense minister on Sunday accused Pakistan of allowing U.S. drones to enter and attack Afghanistan through Pakistan’s airspace.
“According to our information, the drones are entering through Pakistan to Afghanistan, they use Pakistan’s airspace, we ask Pakistan, don’t use your airspace against us,” the Taliban’s Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob told reporters at a Kabul news conference, per translations.
A U.S. drone strike in Kabul last month killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, a former deputy to Osama bin Laden and a key planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied Yaqoob’s claims in a statement, noting “deep concern” about the “conjectural allegations.”
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