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  Pak allocates Rs 30 crores to madrasa linked to former Afghan Taliban Mullah Omar

  World | June 19, 2016 21:05 IST

  Peshawar: In a controversial move, Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has allocated Rs 300 million to the ‘University of Jihad’ which has top Afghan leaders among its alumni which also includes former chief Mullah Omar. “I

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  Scholar, not a soldier: Meet Maulavi Haibatullah Akhundzada, Afghan Taliban’s new leader

  World | May 25, 2016 14:51 IST

  Maulavi Haibatullah Akhundzada, who headed the judiciary during Taliban rule in the 1990s, will take over as leader of the Afghan Taliban

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  Taliban reject peace talks with Afghan government

  World | March 05, 2016 20:36 IST

  Kabul: The Taliban on Saturday refused to resume long-stalled peace talks with the Afghan government, reiterating their preconditions for holding dialogue, a statement said."We want to repeat our stance once again that until the occupation

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  Afghan Taliban supremo Mullah Omar died of Hepatitis C, says son

  World | September 14, 2015 17:31 IST

  Peshawar: Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the eldest son of late Mullah Omar, has revealed that his father died of Hepatitis C.In an audio tape released on Sunday night, authenticated by Afghan Taliban sources, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob

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  Mullah Omar sheltered by ISI: Hillary Clinton email

  World | September 01, 2015 13:29 IST

   Washington: Top Taliban leader Mullah Omar was sheltered by Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI after the outfit's leadership fled from Afghanistan in 2001, according to an email received by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton

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  'Power struggle within Taliban leads to murder of Mullah Omar's son'

  World | August 04, 2015 20:45 IST

  New Delhi: Afghanistan government today said that former Taliban chief Mullah Omar's son Mullah Yaqub was killed last week in Pakistan's Quetta.A report published in Afghan news site TOLO News quoted Afghanistan's first deputy speaker

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  Taliban dissidents launch parallel council

  World | August 04, 2015 8:02 IST

  Islamabad:  Amid a widening rift over succession following Mullah Omar's death, senior Taliban leaders opposed to Mullah Akhtar Mansour's nomination as the group's supremo have launched a parallel council, according to media reports.The senior Taliban

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  Leadership challenged in Afghan Taliban after Mullah Omar

  World | August 02, 2015 23:25 IST

  Kabul, Afghanistan: The brother of the late figurehead of the Afghan Taliban on Sunday joined a growing challenge to the extremist group's newly appointed leader, even as it offered a statement purportedly quoting a well-known

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  26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed offers 'funeral' prayer for Mullah Omar

  World | July 31, 2015 17:32 IST

  Lahore: Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed led a “funeral” prayer for Taliban's longtime supremo Mullah Omar here after the terror outfit confirmed his death. A large number of activists of JuD

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  Mullah Omar's death mysterious: Pakistani daily

  World | July 31, 2015 12:17 IST

  Islamabad:  Taliban leader Mullah Omar lived in secrecy and his death appears to have been just as mysterious, a Pakistani daily said on Friday.An editorial in the News International said that Mullah Omar, who led

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  Taliban confirms Omar's death; Mullah Akhtar becomes new chief

  World | July 30, 2015 23:57 IST

  Kabul:  Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, a top Afghan Taliban leader who backed the peace process and a former aviation minister in the pre-2001 Taliban regime, has been appointed as the new chief of the insurgent group,

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  White House says Mullah Omar death reports are credible

  World | July 29, 2015 23:35 IST

  Washington: The White House says the U.S. has concluded that reports of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's death are credible.Afghanistan's main intelligence agency announced Mullah Omar's death earlier Wednesday and said he'd been dead for

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  Taliban chief Mullah Omar is dead: BBC

  World | July 29, 2015 15:59 IST

  New Delhi: The chief of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has died, BBC has reported.The BBC report, which quoted Afghan officials, sated that the militant group has not commented on the latest development.The militant

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  Afghan Taliban supremo Mullah Omar calls for peace in Eid message

  India | July 15, 2015 18:50 IST

  New Delhi:  The supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Omar, on Wednesday spoke about "peaceful ways" alongwith armed jihad for achieving what he called "sacred goals" for establishing an Islamic state in Afghanistan.The elusive

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  Afghan Taliban publish biography of Mullah Omar, claim he is alive

  World | April 07, 2015 12:41 IST

  Kabul: The Afghan Taliban has published a surprise biography of the reclusive militant Mullah Mohammad Omar on Sunday to mark his 19th year as their supreme leader.The 5000-word biography has been elucidated in 11 pages

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  Mullah Omar warns West over fresh Charlie Hebdo cartoons

  World | January 15, 2015 15:05 IST

  Kabul: The Afghan Taliban led by the elusive one-eyed Mullah Omar today condemned the publication in France of more anti-Islam cartoons and warned that blasphemy of the Prophet will not be tolerated.The statement posted on

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  US persuaded Pakistan to support Taliban chief Mullah Omar, reveals Hamid Mir

  World | October 19, 2014 17:50 IST

  New Delhi: Noted Pakistani TV journalist Hamid Mir has revealed that it was senior US official Robin Raphel, who, in 1995, persuaded the then Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to support Taliban chief Mullah Omar

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  Shia outfit declares Rs 1 cr reward for killing ISIS, Taliban, AlQaeda, Lashkar, HuM chiefs

  India | September 09, 2014 19:11 IST

  Lucknow: A Shia organisation All India Shia Hussaini Fund has offered to give Rs 1 crore cash reward for killing Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the chief of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Mullah Omar, the

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  Mullah Omar is 'still willing to talk'

  World | August 07, 2013 9:37 IST

  Kabul,Aug 7: In a five-page message emailed ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr festival, Taliban's reclusive leader urges a continued struggle against the international coalition and its Afghan allies.The Taliban's reclusive leader said on Tuesday that his

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  Mullah Omar can run for presidency: Karzai

  World | April 02, 2013 19:23 IST

  Berlin, Apr 2: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai wants the elusive Taliban chief Mullah Omar to run for President in next year's election so that people could “vote for or against him“.Mr. Karzai, in an interview