Taliban Reject Mullah Omar's Arrest, PressTV, 6 July 2010

EXCERPT: "Taliban militants in Afghanistan have rejected reports that their reclusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been arrested in neighboring Pakistan. Speaking on Tuesday, Taliban spokesperson Zabeeh Ullah dismissed the report as part of the Western media propaganda efforts. Ullah said that Mullah Omar was still in Afghanistan and called on the US to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan as soon as possible. The remarks came in reaction to an earlier report by a US blogger, claiming that the Taliban leader had been detained in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi. Despite having confirmed the arrest of a large number of Taliban militants in 2009 and 2010, Pakistani intelligence and police officials have neither confirmed nor denied the report. Meanwhile, a former senior member of the militant group said Pakistani security forces were harboring Mullah Omar in Karachi. Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi, who was the governor of central Uruzgan Province under the Taliban regime, told an Afghan news website that the Taliban chief was currently in the Pakistani city of Karachi."

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