Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in Pakistan

[Toramana]

KABUL, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in Pakistan, many private television channels in Afghanistan reported on Monday, while Taliban denied the report.
"Mullah Omar was killed on way from Quetta to North Wazirustan, " TOLO television aired in its news bulletin. Several other local TV channels including Shamshad, Ariana and Noor also reported it as the same.
However, the local media did not say the details on how he was killed and by whom.
Meantime, a security official contacted ....

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english201...c_13889650.htm

[gadoonwal]

not true.fake news.

[Toramana]

Aghan govt backs Mullah Omar's death reports23 May 2011, 1432 hrs IST, AGENCIESThe spokesman of national security Department Lutfullah Mashal spoke to TIMES NOW and claimed that his sources in the Taliban have confirmed Mullah Omar's death in Pakistan, but the government did not have any official confirmation yet. Afghan reports said, the reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar was being transferred by former chief of Pakistan ISI, General Hamid Gul from Keota to Waziristan when he was killed.

He said, “At the moment we cannot officials confirm this report. But our sources in the ranks of Taliban said that Mullah Omar was shifted two days ago from Quetta to North Waziristan by plain clothed officials led by General Hamid Gul, the ex-chairman of ISI. On the way something had happened. The Taliban leaders claimed that their links and contact with Mullah Omar had been cut out and are unaware of the whereabouts of Mullah Omar.”

“We are not yet convinced though,” added the spokesperson.

However, earlier today the Taliban ...

http://www.timesnow.tv/Aghan-govt-ba...ow/4374028.cms

[Toramana]

KABUL, Afghanistan—
A Taliban spokesman on Monday vehemently denied a swirl of rumors that the movement's spiritual leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, had died or been killed, but Afghanistan's main intelligence service said he had disappeared from his alleged Pakistan hideout.

The Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said by telephone that Omar -- the one-eyed, self-declared "commander of the faithful" who has ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,3082602.story

[Toramana]

KANDAHAR: Afghanistan’s intelligence services said Monday that Taliban leader Mullah Omar had “disappeared from his hideout” in Pakistan, but could not confirm that he had been killed despite an earlier claim.
He is said to have vanished up to five days ago.
“We can confirm that he has been disappeared from his hideout in Quetta, Balochistan,” said Lutfullah Mashal, spokesman for the National Directorate of Security (NDS).
“He has been disappeared from his location during the last four to five days,” he added, speaking in English. “So far we cannot confirm the killing of Mullah Omar officially.”
Mashal’s comments came hours after one Afghan intelligence source called a handful of reporters to tell them on condition of anonymity that Omar had been killed in Pakistan by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
A separate source later told AFP that he had been missing for 11 days.
The Taliban have denied that he is dead or missing.
Speaking to AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location, Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the claim was “pure propaganda”.
His Pakistani counterpart Ehsanullah Ehsan said the news “has been spread to weaken the Taliban.”
The claim came exactly three weeks after the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US Navy SEALs in Pakistan.
It was not immediately clear exactly how Afghanistan would have such detail on Omar’s movements, although Mashal said the information came from “our sources and senior Taliban commanders.”
The first Afghan source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Omar had been killed on Friday, citing information received from sources within the Haqqani insurgent group, whose leaders are based in Pakistan.
“Based on ISI instruction” through former ISI chief Hamid Gul, Mullah Mohammad Omar was told to move from Quetta to the tribal district of North Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan, the source said.
“As Mullah Omar was being transported from Quetta to North Waziristan by the ISI, he was secretly killed by the ISI.”
However, a second Afghan intelligence source who also spoke anonymously said that Omar had been missing for 11 days following a meeting with Gul.
“It has been 11 days since his close circle, the people around him, have no clue of his whereabouts. The Taliban leadership are all concerned and worried for the sudden disappearance of Mullah Omar,” the source said.
Gul described the claims by the sources as “totally false”.
“I never met Mullah Omar, not even once in my life,” he told AFP.
“This has been fed by the Indian lobby to defame Pakistan and me. I don’t think he is in Pakistan. He never came into Pakistan, even during the Soviet Union war (in Afghanistan).”
Interior Minister Rehman Malik also told media that Pakistan had “no such information” on Omar’s alleged killing.
“There has been no report available to us about any operation that has happened in Pakistan. If Mullah Omar has been killed in Afghanistan, it is up to the Afghan authorities to confirm or deny,” he said

http://tribune.com.pk/story/174261/m...kistan-report/

[Toramana]

I believe this is a deliberate intelligence leak to media. Mullah Omar was next on the US target list and Pakistan was warry of another incursion of its area by US forces. There are two possibilities:

1. Either Omar has been killed
2. He has been shifted to another most likely in FATA or Afghanistan

Actually, he had become a liability for Pakistan after Osama. So more likely he was killed by the ISI.

[gadoonwal]

He is not dead cus ISI will make it a big news to please her master in US.
He will be killed for sure but for now he is alive.
The afghani source is fake.
The punjsheri officers in Afghanistan’s intelligence services are well known for their fake claims.
The afghani govt are in procces of peace deal with talibs something punjsheri hate the most.The punjsheri wants to continue this war against pashtun in the name of talib.
ISI,RAW and CIA are playing bloody game on afghani soil.

[afghan]

KANDAHAR: Afghanistan’s intelligence services said Monday that Taliban leader Mullah Omar had “disappeared from his hideout” in Pakistan, but could not confirm that he had been killed despite an earlier claim.
He is said to have vanished up to five days ago.
“We can confirm that he has been disappeared from his hideout in Quetta, Balochistan,” said Lutfullah Mashal, spokesman for the National Directorate of Security (NDS).
“He has been disappeared from his location during the last four to five days,” he added, speaking in English. “So far we cannot confirm the killing of Mullah Omar officially.”
Mashal’s comments came hours after one Afghan intelligence source called a handful of reporters to tell them on condition of anonymity that Omar had been killed in Pakistan by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
A separate source later told AFP that he had been missing for 11 days.
The Taliban have denied that he is dead or missing.
Speaking to AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location, Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the claim was “pure propaganda”.
His Pakistani counterpart Ehsanullah Ehsan said the news “has been spread to weaken the Taliban.”
The claim came exactly three weeks after the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US Navy SEALs in Pakistan.
It was not immediately clear exactly how Afghanistan would have such detail on Omar’s movements, although Mashal said the information came from “our sources and senior Taliban commanders.”
The first Afghan source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Omar had been killed on Friday, citing information received from sources within the Haqqani insurgent group, whose leaders are based in Pakistan.
“Based on ISI instruction” through former ISI chief Hamid Gul, Mullah Mohammad Omar was told to move from Quetta to the tribal district of North Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan, the source said.
“As Mullah Omar was being transported from Quetta to North Waziristan by the ISI, he was secretly killed by the ISI.”
However, a second Afghan intelligence source who also spoke anonymously said that Omar had been missing for 11 days following a meeting with Gul.
“It has been 11 days since his close circle, the people around him, have no clue of his whereabouts. The Taliban leadership are all concerned and worried for the sudden disappearance of Mullah Omar,” the source said.
Gul described the claims by the sources as “totally false”.
“I never met Mullah Omar, not even once in my life,” he told AFP.
“This has been fed by the Indian lobby to defame Pakistan and me. I don’t think he is in Pakistan. He never came into Pakistan, even during the Soviet Union war (in Afghanistan).”
Interior Minister Rehman Malik also told media that Pakistan had “no such information” on Omar’s alleged killing.
“There has been no report available to us about any operation that has happened in Pakistan. If Mullah Omar has been killed in Afghanistan, it is up to the Afghan authorities to confirm or deny,” he said

http://tribune.com.pk/story/174261/m...kistan-report/

he must be under hamid gul protection in his mansion.

[MDresden]

He's dead. I believe we are going in like surgical steel now. Get ready for a pre-recorded video so his replacement can come in without any hiccups. lol.

[graveyardofempires]

just heard on Afghan tv that he disapeared but the rest of this whole story seems rather stupid.

[emkhan]

just heard on Afghan tv that he disapeared but the rest of this whole story seems rather stupid.

Was he sitting in the Afghan tv station studio that he disappeared LOL.
funny news

[MDresden]

Must be a crazy checklist for commanders in Taliban.

"Cell Phone or walkie-talkie. Check."
"Computer. Check."
"Pre-recorded video of you talking somewhere to give re-assurance you are still alive. Check."

:P

[graveyardofempires]

^
arent you that warrior philosopher guy?

[MDresden]

Maybe? Just thinking in the shoes of a taliban commander, can't be the greatest of things when you put in your application and one of the requirements is to make a pre-recorded video lol.

[graveyardofempires]

^
pre recorded video?
come again