[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The story of Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, Supreme Leader of Taliban, is now getting close to that of Mullah Mohmmad Omar's, whose death was covered up for years.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...
had died at least two years before but Taliban were repeatedly rejecting the report and covering up the news until July 2015.
Taliban were even issuing statements and releasing messages to media under the signature of dead-Mullah Omar.
But after a splinter group of Taliban unveiled his death to media, the group's core committee "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...
" also confirmed the news and majority of the committee's members appointed Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Masnour, deputy to Mullah Omar, as their Supreme Leader.
Now reports suggest that Mullah Akhtar Mansour received serious injuries in a clash with rival group close to Quetta city of Pakistain and later departed this vale of tears in the hospital. But Taliban reject the report adding up to the believe that Mullah Omar's vague myth might be repeated.
Rooters news agency quotes a senior Taliban capo as saying that Mullah Mansour has died and his deputy Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada is poised to take over the leadership.
"I personally believe Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada and the Emirate will announce his death at an appropriate time later," he said, employing the term the Taliban use to describe their movement. "I am hundred percent sure that Mullah Mansour is no more," he said.
A commander of the dissident group of Taliban under the leadership of Mullah Mohammad Rasoul also says that Mullah Akhtar Mansour is died.
However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
front man for the group that supports Mullah Akhtar Mansour call the report a "propaganda", the same term they used to reject the news of Mullah Omar's death before it was confirmed.
"Well, we are trying to locate him through our people to get his voice and release to the media to kill these rumors spread by the Afghan puppet government," Mujahid is quoted by Rooters as saying.