New Afghan Taliban chief spurns peace talks

So what is going on? Enemies are endeavoring to “fracture and undermine the Taliban’s jihad and empower themselves”, he said.

The Taliban deny Mullah Omar ever left Afghanistan, however the secretive nature of his demise raised the likelihood that the senior Taliban management – a Supreme Council with simply seven members – had hid his demise from the broader motion, which has tens of hundreds of fighters.

The brand new chief of the Taliban is seen as near Pakistan, which is believed to have sheltered and supported the insurgents by way of the struggle, now in its 14th yr. This may increasingly put him able to revive the peace talks.

The position of the Afghan government was unclear, as Ghani – who has made peace a priority of his administration – is in Germany for medical treatment.

The splinter group of the Taliban in Afghanistan which confirmed the death of Mullah Omar for the first time has also claimed that Mullah Omar was killed based on a conspiracy involving the group’s current leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.

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Mansour s two newly named deputies are Sirajuddin – who has a $10 million US bounty on his head – and Haibatullah Akhundzada, former head of the Taliban courts.

The White House said U.S. intelligence can confirm Taliban leader Omar is dead, but did not say how long ago he died or under what circumstances.

But many Taliban, and some Afghan officials, fear the recent talks are a ploy by Pakistan to retain control.

At first glance, this judgment appears dead wrong.

Newspapers hang for sale at a stand carrying headlines about the new leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, August 1, 2015. Mansour’s increased authority coincides with an uptick in violence over the past year.

“I talked to his grandson (who is somewhere in eastern Afghanistan) and he completely rejected rumours of his death”, the commander said.

Mansour’s 30-minute broadcast to top Taliban leaders comes less than a week after the Afghan government announced the 2013 death of leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

Kabul, however, likely takes a different view of the peace talks’ future trajectory. Why not give up the fight and talk with us, so that we can work out an arrangement to integrate you back into the political system.

“We will continue the jihad until we establish an Islamic state”, he said. But for more than a decade, he served as the unifying force of the Taliban. Mullah Omar’s death announcement will likely spark a fresh exodus of disaffected Taliban fighters to the Islamic State’s side. It wanted to divide the Taliban and bring in its own people. As the rise of Islamic State has shown, an even more radical group could rise out of the disintegration of the Taliban.

While news of Jalaluddin Haqqani’s death had been making rounds for nearly a month now, multiple credible sources in Taliban said that Jalaluddin Haqqani died nearly a year ago of natural causes and was buried in Afghan province of Khost.