Washington: The United States has no confirmation that Ilyas Kashmiri, the al-Qaeda leader and a key planner behind the gruesome 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, has been killed in a US drone attack, a top Pentagon official said on Monday.
“No confirmation,” Pentagon spokesman Col Dave Lapan told reporters during his off camera daily briefing.
“The Department of Defense has no confirmation (on the death of Kashmiri),” he noted when told that Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Monday that the US has confirmed the death of Kashmiri.
Gilani told a news conference in Quetta that “as far as the death of Kashmiri is concerned, America has confirmed that his death occurred on Friday”. (PTI)