Taliban’s Mullah Omar Passed Away In 2013, Afghan Government Confirms
The spokesman for Afghanistan’s security services has confirmed the death of Taliban leader Mullah Omar on Wednesday, died in April 2013 in Pakistan.
A deputy spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Mr. Zafar Hashemi told media that Mullah Omar died because of health problems at a hospital in Pakistan.
Omar was a supreme commander and the spiritual leader of the Taliban, who offered safe place to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during his leadership, when the U.S. military launched their offensives in Afghanistan after the terror incident of September 11, 2001.
Eric Schultz, deputy press secretary for the White House didn’t confirm the terrorist Omar’s death news, while believes reports are believable. He also said that the intelligence community trying to investigate the reports.
Afghanistan’s intelligence service spokesperson, Haseeb Sediqi has also confirmed Omar’s death by saying that he lost his breath in a hospital in Karachi city of Pakistan, in April 2013.
Mr. Sediqi also described that since the death of Omar, it was informed to Afghan Parliament as well three times explained in previous news conferences. He added that not only Afghan authorities, even the National Directorate of Security as well as intelligence service was informed about the death of Taliban senior leader.
Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah’s senior adviser, Omar Samad stated in his statement, “All odds and indications point to the fact that he has been dead for at least two years,”
After the election of the new Afghan government previous year, the senior officials launched peace talks to Taliban but they didn’t agree to accept government’s peace appeal, still continued their terror acts in country.
The aim of the government was that all armed opposition parties should join the peace process for sake of Afghanistan’s bright future.