Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada the successor of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor ISLAMABAD: The Taliban militants group confirmed the death of the group’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor and announced Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada as his successor. A statement by the group said Mawlavi Akhundzada was appointed as the successor of Mansoor after he was unanimously voted by the leadership council members. The statement further ...

The Afghan government confirmed that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed in a US air strike in a remote border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mansour assumed the leadership of the militant organization in July 2015 soon after the whistleblowers revealed that the Taliban’s spiritual leader, Mullah Omar, had actually died two years ago. Mansoor was born ...

The supreme leader of the Taliban group Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was frequently using Karachi airport to travel to other countries with reports suggesting he travelled abroad through Jinnah International airport for at least 18 times. However, a local news channel in Pakistan has reported that Mullah Mansoor travelled to Dubai 9 times using the airport and once to Bahrain. Citing ...

KABUL: The top Taliban leaders have reportedly met on Sunday in the framework of their leadership council to discuss successor Mullah Akhtar Mansoor who was killed in an airstrike on Saturday. The leadership council discussed regarding various possible successors, including the notorious guerrilla commander Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taliban sources told Reuters. Sirajuddin Haqqani is the leader of the notorious Haqqani terrorist ...

KABUL: The social media have been rife with a viral report suggesting that the successor of Mullah Mohammad Omar had a Pakistani passport. A photograph which purportedly shows a photograph of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor printed in the main page of a Pakistani passport has gone viral on social media following reports of his death in a drone strike. The passport ...

KABUL: The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah has said some Taliban leaders will likely join peace process with the confirmation of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor’s death. Abdullah further added an investigation is underway by the government of Afghanistan to ascertain the fate of Mullah Mansoor. The Chief Executive Officer said Mansoor has most probably been killed in the airstrike by the ...

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor’s relations had deteriorated with Pakistan since he assumed the charge of Taliban leadership, succeeding the group’s founder Mullah Mohammad Omar. According to the diplomatic sources quoted in a report by a local newspaper in Pakistan, Mullah Mansoor’s death would not cause any major concerns in Pakistan’s power circles. The sources claimed that ...

PAKISTAN: The Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor has likely been killed in American drone strike in Pakistan, it has been reported. The airstrike was carried out along the Durand Line in a remote area of Pakistan, southwest of the town of Ahmad Wal. Mansoor was reportedly travelling a vehicle which was targeted by multiple drones, a senior US defense ...

AFGHANISTAN: The United States Department of States said Wednesday that the Taliban a group has a choice to participate in direct peace talks with the Afghan government as the 5th round of Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) group in Pakistan. The State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters Ambassador Olson, the US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was the representative ...

One of the most senior Taliban figures in the group’s Quetta Council has died of cancer, reportedly in a specialized cancer hospital in Pakistan. The Taliban group confirmed that Abdullah Gul Rayan died of cancer but did not elaborate further regarding his death and the location where he died. According to a local newspaper in Pakistan, Daily Pakistan Global, Rayan ...