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Senior Taliban leader Mullah Hassan Rahmani dies
 [Khaama (Afghanistan)] A senior member of the Taliban leadership council Mullah Mohammad Hassan Rahmani has passed away, Taliban announced in a statement on Tuesday morning.According to the statement, Rahmani died of cancer last night. Images published on social media show an elderly aged man, identified as Rahmani, lying on a bed in a hospital. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the location of the hospital is not mentioned. Mullah Mohammad Hassan Rahmani was a close aide Mullah Mohammad Omar who served as the governor of southern Kandahar province and head of the southern zone during Taliban regime. Rahmani was among the Taliban leaders who had been involved in meetings for reaching to a peace deal with government including one that was arranged in Urumqi city of China. He was one of the few Taliban capos who initially opposed the selection of Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour as the leader of Taliban after the death of Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... But sources later said that a compromise had been reached and Rahmani too pledged allegiance to Mansour.
Rahmani rose to prominence as a jihadist during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and lost a leg during the conflict, according to a statement on the Taliban's website which confirmed his death but did not say where it happened. Quetta, the capital of Pakistain's restive Balochistan  ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province, has long been rumored to host the "Quetta Shura ...Mullah Omar's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest... " or Quetta Leadership Council of the Taliban -- big shots who fled across the border to Pakistain after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Pakistain, which was one of just three countries to recognize the Taliban during their period in power, denies the council's existence. A senior Taliban leader told AFP: "He died in Quetta late Monday night and today his body was moved to Afghanistan. The burial will probably take place in Kandahar." The source added: "He was a prominent figure in the Taliban leadership and there were some rumors he might soon announce his own splinter group." Posted by: Fred 2016-02-10 |
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