An Afghan local television network has quoted Afghan intelligence sources as saying that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in Pakistan.
"Mullah Omar was killed on way from Quetta to North Waziristan," TOLO television said in its news bulletin, Xinhua news agency reported today, 23rd May.
The private television channel, however, did not provide any further details.
Meanwhile, a security official confirmed the killing, emphasizing that Mullah Omar was killed inside Pakistan.
“It is correct that Mullah Omar has been killed," the official said.
Mullah Omar, the founder of the Taliban, was Afghanistan's de facto head of state from 1996 to 2001.
The Taliban leader had survived US military manhunt since the US-led invasion of on Afghanistan in 2001.
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