Latest News
Mullah Akhtar Mansour dies of injures: Afghan officials
Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour has died of injuries, a senior official confirmed on Friday.
Press secretary of the first Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum said “Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour died of injuries.”
According to Afghan officials, Mansour was injured in a firefight following a verbal dispute at a meeting of militant commanders in Pakistan.
Akhtar Mansour replaced former Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar who was confirmed dead in July.
However, Taliban leadership by Mansour has divided the hardliner group into factions and the prominent one is led by Mullah Mohammad Rasoul, a close aide to Omar’s family.
Taliban’s purported spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, in a statement, has rejected the report as baseless.
Mujahid said that intelligence agencies, by launching such baseless propaganda, were attempting to deceive the public opinion.
A Taliban commander in the southern province of Helmand had said the group would soon release an audio and video message from Mansour.