Mullah Omar’s successor appointment: Taliban’s chief negotiator resigns

Relatives of Mullah Omar have contested Mullah Mansoor’s appointment, demanding a wider vote that includes battlefield commanders as their almost 14-year insurgency continues.

Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who had served as Mullah Omar’s deputy, was chosen to succeed him by the group’s seven-member Supreme Council, meeting in the Pakistani city of Quetta.

A second round of talks, which has been scheduled to begin Friday in Pakistan, has been indefinitely postponed.

He said previous leaders appointed outside the country going back to the invasion by Soviet forces, and the government set up after the Taliban were ousted, had “very bad repercussions”.

He said Mansour’s decision to send his delegation to the first official peace talks between Taliban and Afghan government representatives last month in Pakistan had bypassed Agha, the head of the negotiating team in Qatar. Muzhda said at least one other member of the office had also resigned.

The audio statement by Mullah Manan, who was speaking on behalf of his family, could be a serious blow to Mullah Mansoor as the Taliban believe thousands of foot soldiers and senior cadres have sympathies for the family of their former spiritual leader.

The White House said the claims of Mullah Omar’s decease have been persuasive so that the Simply.S. intellect local community is a little into all of them.

“Mullah Yaqub, the son of Mullah Omar, was killed a couple of days ago”, the Daily Outlook reported quoting lawmaker Zahir Qadir.

The statement, signed by spokesmen Zabihullah Mujahid and Qari Yusouf Ahmadi, called on supporters to “help write messages and letters on social media” to show a united front.

Lately, Taliban fighters have been defecting to the Islamic State group in northern Kunduz province, and the two rival militant groups have increasingly fought it out there.

The Afghan government, meanwhile, banned any public mourning for Mullah Omar, saying late Monday that it would cause “anguish and humiliation” for those who have lost loved ones to the war with the Taliban.

The NDS statement described Mullah Omar’s death as an “assassination”, without providing further details.