Around an Invisible Leader, Taliban Power Shifts

[Friends of Baloch]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/29/world/around-an-invisible-leader-taliban-power-shifts.html?ref=world

In a season of immense upheaval in the jihadist world, the Taliban gained ground in new Afghan offensives, endured a bloody internal power struggle and had to contend with the rise of the Islamic State militant group as an ideological rival. Through it all, Mullah Omar has remained silent.

[asad71]

Looks like another propaganda material from the Americans.

[ghumbasa]

The paranoia of oppressive regimes...lol.

[Al-Afghani]

Pakistan continues to tighten their grip on the Taliban. By now Hamid Gul is the Amir Al Momenin, not Mullah Omar anymore.

But now one man, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, has risen to the No. 2 role and become the main link to Mullah Omar, allowing him to place his loyalists up and down the ranks, Mr. Nabil said.
Mr. Nabil said that, in one example, a prominent commander operating south of Kabul was killed by fellow Taliban fighters in May or June because he was close to a rival of Mullah Mansour.
Mr. Nabil, in his assessment, saw Pakistan’s security establishment driving the changes, an appraisal shared by some Western officials. Some said it was a bid for greater control over the insurgency; others saw it as the evolution of a long-running Pakistani effort to avoid the embarrassment of having Mullah Omar discovered being sheltered in their country.

[ghumbasa]

Pakistan continues to tighten their grip on the Taliban. By now Hamid Gul is the Amir Al Momenin, not Mullah Omar anymore.

Thats just paranoia of west.There is leadership for pashtuns only in upcoming days.West has propaganda working full time.