The former religious police minister in the ousted Taliban government has been killed in a NATO air strike in southern Afghanistan, a senior provincial official said, according to Reuters. Taliban sources confirmed the raid but said the man, Abdul Wali, the radical Islamic movement's one-time minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, was not killed. Wali along with 30 other militants, was killed three days ago in the NATO raid in Panjwai district of Kandahar, Kandahar governor Assadullah Khalid said. "We have credible information that Abdul Wali has been killed in the operation," Khalid told a news conference in Kandahar. Authorities have not recovered Wali's body, he added.