Tag: Omar

‘Mullah Omar is not dead’

The Taliban said on Wednesday their reclusive one-eyed leader Mullah Omar was alive and accused the United States of hacking their mobile phones to...

Mullah Omar’s son-in-law involved in peace talks

British newspaper The Scotsman said in a report on Saturday that Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar’s son-in-law was part of a secret delegation that...

Nawaz, Mullah Omar same genre, says Zardari

Describing PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif as a cleric, President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday said the maulvi (Nawaz) wanted to replicate the politics of...

‘Mullah Omar key for US in Afghan talks’

The US may be in talks with the Taliban but its key challenge will be reaching out to the militants' elusive, one-eyed leader Mullah...

All options open to hunt Mullah Omar: Kerry

US Senator John Kerry on Saturday said Washington would consider all options to kill Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar. He was replying to a...

Quetta nervous as US hunts for Mullah Omar

After killing the al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a May 2 raid, the United States has made clear it will go after...

Pakistan denies Mullah Omar was treated in Karachi

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Thursday rejected the media reports suggesting that the Taliban chief Mullah Muhammad Omar was treated in a Karachi hospital after he had suffered a heart attack.
An ISPR spokesman, in a statement, strongly contradicted the news item appeared in local and international media about the medical treatment of Afghan Taliban Mullah Omar at Karachi. He said that news was 'unfounded and concocted' to serve vested interests'.
Foreign Office Abdul Basit also

Mulla Omar has no role in talks, says Karzai’s brother

ISLAMABAD: A new WikiLeaks diplomatic cable has revealed the details of the Saudi Arabia-backed reconciliation process to bring peace in Afghanistan, quoting Afghan president's brother Abdul Qayyum Karzai saying that Mulla Omar could not survive the talks' process, as he had no role to play and exile was perhaps an option for him.
"I see no way for Mullah Omar to survive the process - he didn't have the intelligence or popular support to emerge on top. He (Omar) and Mulla Barader