Tolo News: In reaction to a new research by a Dutch writer which says Mullah Mohammad Omar, Taliban’s founding leader, had lived in Afghanistan before he died in 2013, former head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Rahmatullah Nabil, said on Tuesday that Mullah Omar never lived in Afghanistan following April 2001. Nabil told TOLOnews
Ayaz Gul VOA News March 11, 2019 ISLAMABAD — Officials in Afghanistan are rejecting a new American investigative report that claims the founder of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, spent his final years in Afghanistan, not in neighboring Pakistan. Washington and Afghan officials have long asserted that Omar took refuge in Pakistan after a U.S.-led military coalition dislodged
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 30, 2018 Afghan officials say clashes between two Taliban factions have killed dozens of militants in the country’s west. Jilani Farhad, the spokesman for the governor of Herat Province, said at least 28 Taliban fighters were killed and 25 wounded in the Shindand district on November 30. Hekmatullah Hekmat, the
Khaama Press: The letter states that the attack near Jamhoriat hospital with an ambulance has not only resulted in massive civilian casualties but resulted into depiction of a negative image of Taliban on domestic and international level besides resulting into reduced support to the movement. According to Mullah Yaqoob, the attack was carried out based on the
VOA Deewa Service December 15, 2017 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — The Taliban, known for its extreme Islamic rule before U.S. forces ousted the group from power in Afghanistan, have largely devolved into groups of criminals and terrorists, the country’s ambassador to Pakistan says. The change is critical as Afghanistan tries to create a lasting peace after decades
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 23, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Fugitive Afghan Taliban leaders are being increasingly pressured to relocate from Pakistan along with their families and businesses for refusing to join peace talks with Kabul, officials and insurgent sources told VOA in background interviews. “The squeeze is continuing on them [the Taliban] and some have already
VOA News / July 4, 2016 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD — Weeks of scathing criticism has apparently prompted a provincial government in Pakistan to review a grant of $3 million it has recently allocated for a controversial Islamic seminary, which some critics refer to as the “University of Jihad.” The Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary, or madrasa, headed by
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 12, 2016 BALUCHISTAN, PAKISTAN—The Taliban says it has launched its annual spring military offensive in Afghanistan, titled “Omari Operation.” In a statement sent to reporters Tuesday, the Islamist insurgent group promised “large scale attacks on enemy positions, martyrdom-seeking (suicide) and tactical attacks against enemy strongholds and assassination of enemy commanders
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghanistan’s Taliban announced Monday its deceased leader Mullah Omar’s elder son has assumed command of the insurgency in 15 out of the country’s 34 provinces. A Taliban statement said Omar’s son, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, also has been inducted into the powerful decision making leadership council that the group