30 Jul 2015

Afghan Taliban Appoint New Supremo To Replace Mullah Omar

ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Taliban has chosen to name another boss after reports guaranteed that previous supremo Mullah Omar had kicked the bucket two years back. 
Very much educated sources told Geo News on Thursday that a meeting of the Taliban preeminent committee (shura) was brought in Afghanistan on Wednesday in which it was collectively chosen that Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor will now serve as the development's incomparable pioneer. 


Sources said that Khalifah Sirajuddin Haqqani and Haibatullah Akhundzada were likewise selected as appointees amid the meeting, which was gone to by every accessible part. 

New Taliban boss Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor already served as the second-in-charge of the development. He has a place from the Afghan territory of Kandahar and is said to be steady of peace arrangements. 

Previous boss and the development's originator, Mullah Omar drove the activist gathering to triumph over contending Afghan state armies in the 1990's after the withdrawal of Soviet troops. 

The Taliban government was removed after the US-drove powers attacked Afghanistan taking after the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda bombings in New York and Washington. 

On Wednesday, a representative for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Afghanistan's knowledge office authorities guaranteed that the isolated previous Taliban boss passed on two years prior at a clinic in Pakistan. 

"Mullah Omar is dead," said Haseeb Sediqi, a representative for the National Directorate of Security. "He kicked the bucket in a Karachi healing center in April 2013... under strange circumstances." 

An announcement from the Afghan Presidential Royal residence later asserted: "The legislature of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, in view of trustworthy data, affirms that Mullah Mohammad Omar, pioneer of the Taliban kicked the bucket in April 2013 in Pakistan." 

"The legislature of Afghanistan trusts that reason for the Afghan peace talks are more cleared now than some time recently, and along these lines approaches all equipped resistance gatherings to grab the open door and join the peace process." 

The United States additionally asserted that reports of Mullah Omar's passing seemed "trustworthy". 

News of the previous Taliban pioneer's demise came only two days prior to a second round of peace talks between the radicals and Afghan government delegates which are relied upon to happen in Pakistan. 

On July 7, The Afghan government led its first up close and personal converses with Taliban units managed by American and Chinese delegates in the Pakistani slope station of Murree.