Mullah Omar Is Dead

[Zarvan]

Im feel very sorry for Mullah Omer. May Allah forgive his sins and grant him peace in the afterlife. He was one who honestly wanted good for his people. But the Americans portrayed him as a monster. Very Sad.

Hope Afghan government doesn't make the mistake of thinking Taliban are week and try to end talks. Talks are crucial to bring peace in Afghanistan. RAW and their pets in Afghanistan and Pakistan will try to sabotage talks but talks must go on.

 

[kaonalpha]

Hope Afghan government doesn't make the mistake of thinking Taliban are week and try to end talks. Talks are crucial to bring peace in Afghanistan. RAW and their pets in Afghanistan and Pakistan will try to sabotage talks but talks must go on.

Well I guess now the decision rests with Mullah Akhtar . He was Mullah omers second in command lets hope.

 

[Zarvan]

Well I guess now the decision rests with Mullah Akhtar . He was Mullah omers second in command lets hope.

What I think is they will suspend talks for few months and increase the intensity of fight to show they are still a power to reckon with but I hope both parties give up their egos and talk and bring peace.

 

[kaonalpha]

What I think is they will suspend talks for few months and increase the intensity of fight to show they are still a power to reckon with but I hope both parties give up their egos and talk and bring peace.

One word
"ISIS"

 

[Zarvan]

One word
"ISIS"

Yes enough to make them talk in fact only thing which can make sure talks continue in Afghanistan.

 

[saurav]

Hope Afghan government doesn't make the mistake of thinking Taliban are week and try to end talks. Talks are crucial to bring peace in Afghanistan. RAW and their pets in Afghanistan and Pakistan will try to sabotage talks but talks must go on.

So Mullah Omar died ..? or, this is another hoax..?

Split among ranks is imminent and net gainer will be Afghan Govt + ISIS ...

 

[Zarvan]

So Mullah Omar died ..? or, this is another hoax..?

Split among ranks is imminent and net gainer will be Afghan Govt + ISIS ...

This time it seem to be true. Split won't take place

 

[ghazi52]

This time it seem to be true. Split won't take place

True. No split...........................

 

[kaonalpha]

This time it seem to be true. Split won't take place

True. No split...........................

There will be no split . When ISIS Knocks there will be an.alliance between who god knows.

 

[Haroon Qureshi]

I am shocked to hear about it. Mullah Omar was the need of the hour. Afghan Taliban is not going to be that so strong as it was under Mullah Omar. I hope there won't be split among AT else ISIS will raze them easily.

 

[Sine Nomine]

He is not dead but old man has taken retirement,he spent most part of his life fighting.

 

[ghazi52]

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Mullah Omar did not die in Pakistan, say Afghan Taliban

KABUL: The Taliban on Thursday confirmed the death of their leader Mullah Omar but did not say when or where he died. The statement says “his [Mullah Omar's] health condition deteriorated in the last two weeks” and “not for a single day did he go to Pakistan”.

The statement went on to say that three days of religious ceremonies would be held “to pray for the soul of Mullah Omar”.

The militants said Omar died of “sickness”, citing family members, contradicting the Afghan government's stance that the one-eyed warrior-cleric had passed away in the Pakistani city Karachi. Afghanistan's premier intelligence agency had also claimed Omar died in a Karachi hospital in April 2013.

Omar's death marks a significant blow to the Taliban, which is riven by internal divisions and threatened by the rise of the self-styled Islamic State group, the Middle East jihadist outfit that is making steady inroads in Afghanistan.

“The leadership of the Islamic Emirate and the family of Mullah Omar... announce that leader Mullah Omar died due to a sickness,” a Taliban statement said, using the movement's official name.

The Taliban, who were faced with the tricky process of choosing a successor to the near-mythical figure who led them for some 20 years, appointed Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as their new supreme leader earlier today.

According to DawnNews sources, the Afghan Taliban held meetings Wednesday night, after the reported death of Mullah Omar, and after consultation between members of the Shura Council, elected Mansoor as their new chief.

Mansoor was previously Omar’s deputy, and was running the 20-member council after Omar’s death.

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The Afghan Taliban held meetings Wednesday night after the reported death of Mullah Omar, and after consultation between all members of the Shura Council, elected Mansoor as their new chief.

Mansoor was previously Omar’s deputy, and was running the 20-member council after Omar’s death. He has the support of Taliban’s senior leadership.

Mansoor is also said to be in favour of peace talks with the Afghan government, and reportedly has appointed Haji Din Muhammad to participate in the peace process.

However, sources claim that not all members of the shura are in favour of peace talks.

According to sources, two new deputies were also chosen during the meeting, one of whom is reportedly Sirajuddin Haqqani.

Sirajuddin leads the Haqqani network, a key ally of the Afghan Taliban. Although he had pledged allegiance to its leader Mullah Omar, Sirajuddin's group operated fairly independently.

Mullah Mansoor, a former aviation minister in the Taliban regime and a former shadow governor of Kandahar, has long been known for his moderate views on reconciliation which have pitted him against hardliners.

He was one of the top Taliban leaders whose accounts the US had frozen as a result of the 9/11 attacks.

Mansoor was also one of two senior Taliban figures named by Mullah Omar to replace the militant organisation’s then No.2 Mullah Abdul Ghani Barader, who was arrested in Pakistan in February 2010.

Recently, the Taliban warned the self-styled Islamic State (IS) against waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan. “The Taliban do not consider the multiplicity of jihadi ranks beneficial to Muslims.”

In a letter sent to IS, Taliban’s then deputy leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor told the IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that jihad against the Americans and their allies in Afghanistan must be conducted under one flag and a unified command.
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[third eye]

He has been killed at least 1000 times in last 14 years so grow up

Mullah Omar is alive and kicking,India is trying her best with her Afghan and International friends to get vengeance for the fact she was not part of any talks which means US has too accepted that India is still not capable of exerting her influencing beyond Bangladesh.

Read this :

Focus shifts to succession as Taliban admit Omar is dead - Newspaper - DAWN.COM

 

[New Resolve]

I wonder in this murky chess game whats true and what isnt, I just hope the afghan factions make peace so they can have normalcy for a change.

 

[ghazi52]

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Mullah Mansour, pragmatic heir to Taliban leadership

Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.

KABUL: The new Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor has a reputation as a relative moderate who favours peace talks with the government — but his leadership already faces challenges to its legitimacy.

For some Mansoor was the obvious choice to succeed Mullah Omar, the warrior-cleric who led the Taliban from its rise in the chaos of the Afghan civil war of the 1990s.

Born in the same southern province, Kandahar, some time in the early 1960s, Mansoor was part of the movement from the start and has effectively been in charge since 2013, according to Taliban sources.

Like Omar, he shuns public appearances. The few pictures believed to be of him show a thickset man with the dark beard and turban that are virtually the uniform for senior Taliban cadres.

Mansoor spent part of his life in Pakistan, like millions of Afghans who fled the Soviet occupation.

He served as civil aviation minister in the Taliban government which ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until it was ousted by the US-led invasion in 2001, when he fled again to Pakistan.

In 2010 his name came up in a bizarre episode in which an impostor claiming to be Mansoor duped US and British intelligence, reportedly receiving tens of thousands of dollars from them in goodwill payments, before disappearing.

Officials and militants have said Mansoor is a pragmatic man strongly in favour of pursuing dialogue with Kabul to try to end Afghanistan’s long, bloody war.

He has shown his ability to navigate between different currents in the Taliban movement, from the Quetta Shura to the “political office” in Qatar to commanders on the ground in Afghanistan.

To take the leadership he outmanoeuvred Mullah Yakoub, Omar’s son who was favoured by some commanders as the new leader but judged too young and inexperienced at 26.

But there are already rumblings of discontent — some Taliban are unhappy at the thought Mansoor may have deceived them for over a year about Omar’s death and others accuse him of riding roughshod over the process to appoint a successor.

While Mansoor was close to his predecessor, he does not have Omar’s aura of religious authority and it is notable the Taliban announcement did not confer the title “Amirul Momineen (leader of the faithful)”, by which the old chief was known.
Moreover his longstanding ties to Pakistan — viewed by many Taliban as a capricious, unreliable ally motivated solely by self-interest.

He faces a huge challenge in trying to unite a movement that is already showing signs of fragmenting and questions about his legitimacy at the highest echelon of the Taliban will not bolster his position.

Read: Mullah Omar died in a Karachi hospital in 2013, says Afghanistan

As well as fighting on the ground and coming under pressure from all sides to negotiate, the Taliban also faces the challenge of halting the expansion of the Islamic State group in Afghanistan, which has been recruiting disaffected fighters.

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