Monitoring Desk:
The final resting place of the Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar was revealed by the Afghan Taliban. Taliban revealed the final resting place of their leader after around a decade with the media.
The Afghan Taliban on Sunday revealed the final resting place of the movement’s founder, Mullah Omar. The Taliban supreme leader’s death and place of burial were kept secret for years.
Rumors surrounding Omar’s health and whereabouts abounded after the Taliban were kicked out of power in 2001 by a US-led invasion, and they only admitted in April 2015 that he had died two years earlier.
Taliban leaders attend a ceremony at his gravesite: Zabiullah Mujahid
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters that senior leaders of the movement attended a ceremony at his gravesite earlier in the day near Omarzo, in the Suri district of Zabul province.
The Taliban returned to power in August last year, routing government forces as the US-led military that propped up the regime ended a 20-year occupation.
Mullah Muhammad Omar was the founder of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan in 1994. He launched the movement against the then warlords and mujahideen from volatile Southern Afghanistan. Spin Boldak was the place where the movement was launched and it captured Afghanistan at a heartbreaking rate.
Mullah Omar fought against Russians
Mullah Omar also fought against Soviet aggression in the early 1980s and lost one leg in the fighting. Taliban sources said Mullah Omar was treated at that time in Quetta.
However, the Taliban was overthrown by the US-led coalition in the aftermath of the catastrophic incident of September 11, 2001. Hamid Karzai was installed as an interim head of the Afghan government in the light of the Bonn conference held from December 5 to 7 in Bonn Germany. Karzai ruled Afghanistan for more than eight years backed by the US and its allies.
