Mullah Omar dead: Pakistan lied yet again
Islamabad, July 30: Pakistan has been caught lying once again. This time, it is regarding the death of Mullah Omar. The Afghanistan Government says that Mullah Omar had died in Karachi in the year 2013. He was suffering from a health condition and had died at a hospital.
Pakistan had repeatedly denied the presence of Mullah Omar on its soil just like it did in the case of Osama Bin Laden. Pakistan also denied the presence of Dawood Ibrahim on its soil.
The Afghanistan government has made it clear that the news of his death is credible and many are taking this claim more seriously than the previous ones.
Most credible claim:
Yesterday, after BBC broke the story that Mullah Omar had died, the Afghanistan government confirmed that the Taliban leader had in fact died. They said that he had died in a hospital in Karachi in the year 2013 itself. The Taliban has however not reacted to the claim. They have not denied it either.
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While the Taliban has not issued any official statement there is already discussion in their two councils to find a replacement for Mullah Omar. This time around the Americans too believe that this claim is genuine. Mullah Omar had gone completely out of the radar after the US invaded Afghanistan post 9/11.
There has been a lot of talk regarding his death since the past several years. However the Taliban and also the Afghan government had kept mum on the issue. An officer with the Indian Intelligence Bureau also says that this time around the news is credible.
Pakistan's denial mode:
Pakistan
has
very
often
denied
the
existence
of
Mullah
Omar
on
its
soil.
Several
inputs
had
suggested
that
Pakistan
had
taken
under
its
care
both
Osama
Bin
Laden
and
Mullah
Omar
when
the
US
invasion
of
Afghanistan
started.
Pakistan
was
often
asked
this
question
regarding
Mullah
Omar,
but
had
always
denied
knowledge.
They
maintained
that
he
was
in
Tora
Bora
while
several
other
international
intelligence
agencies
said
that
Omar
was
very
much
in
Pakistan.
Several journalists from America who had visited Paksitan had written that Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar were being managed by a special ISI desk. They were assets to the Pakistanis and hence all measures were taken to protect them.
Why the denial of Mullah Omar's death?
Taliban has been facing a major leadership crisis. They saw the manner in which the al-Qaeda had disintegrated in Afghanistan following the death of Osama Bin Laden. Mullah Omar was the only leader who had a charismatic appeal and in the absence of them finding a replacement, the Taliban decided to keep the death a secret.
Pakistan on the other which was aware of Mullah Omar's death too decided to keep it a secret. Paksitan has been attempting to use as a proxy the Taliban in Afghanistan. They too were aware that the Taliban which is splitting up badly would completely disintegrate if the news of Mullah Omar's death became public.
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