With the passing of the hours, the yellow becomes more complicated. This morning, the Afghan Tolonews network had launched the news of the death of Mullah Omar, was killed while allegedly transferred from Quetta by Pakistani intelligence to NordWaziristan Frontier Province, one of the areas on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The only official confirmation to this version, attributed to an anonymous source at the National Directorate of Security (NDS, the secret service in Kabul) came from Luftullah Mashal, a spokesman for the organization. Tolonowes called into question directly Hamid Gul, former director - is still considered very powerful - the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence service.
Gul has denied in the strongest possible terms this version of events, saying that these claims "ridiculous." A denial came as clear by the Taliban, through their spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the spiritual leader of turbans blacks "is alive and well". Gul's denial does not just say it is not true that Omar was killed, but denies that it is even in Pakistan, instead it might be hiding, according to many experts, and just in the area of Quetta.
"The Taliban control 75 percent of Afghanistan - claimed Gul - They have their own parallel administration and their parallel judicial system. I do not see why Omar should be hiding in Pakistan. " Along the same lines came from the press Mujhaid, which maintains that Omar is alive, in Afghanistan and driving the guerrillas.
The following statements complicate the picture. In a press conference in Kabul a few hours ago, the same Mashal, a spokesman for NDS has partly retracted confirmation of the death of Omar. Mashal has only said that "four or five days" have lost track of the mullahs, that he would leave his refuge in Pakistan.
And to complicate matters further, came the news of another Afghan news agency, Pajwhok, which argues that the mullahs would be killed by agents of the ISI with men armed with the Haqqani Network, another armed movement close to the Afghan Taliban contrary to the government of Hamid Karzai.
The Haqqani have one of their own rear logistics in North Waziristan, where, according to the reconstruction of Pajwhok, Mullah Omar had to be brought before being killed by the Pakistani intelligence anyway. The reason for this forced relocation, according to Pajwhok yet, is that the ISI wanted to find the body of Omar near the Afghan border to avoid a repetition of the humiliating defeat suffered by the U.S.
raid that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden . Also, by providing the U.S. the body of the spiritual leader of the Taliban, the ISI and the Pakistani government wanted to re-apply for accreditation as a credible and reliable ally. Assuming that this reconstruction is true - and therefore that Mullah Omar was really killed - it is clear that there is a creeping rivalries between intelligence services in Kabul and those in Islamabad is now reaching a breaking point and it becomes increasingly difficult to to contain.
If you discover that the mullahs, whose head hangs from a size U.S. $ 25 million, was not killed, we should ask what the interest of the Afghans services (and the Karzai government) to spread a false story. If not to further weaken the credibility of the government in Islamabad, as the attack on the naval base in Karachi shows, is in a moment of maximum vulnerability.
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The only official confirmation to this version, attributed to an anonymous source at the National Directorate of Security (NDS, the secret service in Kabul) came from Luftullah Mashal, a spokesman for the organization. Tolonowes called into question directly Hamid Gul, former director - is still considered very powerful - the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence service.
Gul has denied in the strongest possible terms this version of events, saying that these claims "ridiculous." A denial came as clear by the Taliban, through their spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the spiritual leader of turbans blacks "is alive and well". Gul's denial does not just say it is not true that Omar was killed, but denies that it is even in Pakistan, instead it might be hiding, according to many experts, and just in the area of Quetta.
"The Taliban control 75 percent of Afghanistan - claimed Gul - They have their own parallel administration and their parallel judicial system. I do not see why Omar should be hiding in Pakistan. " Along the same lines came from the press Mujhaid, which maintains that Omar is alive, in Afghanistan and driving the guerrillas.
The following statements complicate the picture. In a press conference in Kabul a few hours ago, the same Mashal, a spokesman for NDS has partly retracted confirmation of the death of Omar. Mashal has only said that "four or five days" have lost track of the mullahs, that he would leave his refuge in Pakistan.
And to complicate matters further, came the news of another Afghan news agency, Pajwhok, which argues that the mullahs would be killed by agents of the ISI with men armed with the Haqqani Network, another armed movement close to the Afghan Taliban contrary to the government of Hamid Karzai.
The Haqqani have one of their own rear logistics in North Waziristan, where, according to the reconstruction of Pajwhok, Mullah Omar had to be brought before being killed by the Pakistani intelligence anyway. The reason for this forced relocation, according to Pajwhok yet, is that the ISI wanted to find the body of Omar near the Afghan border to avoid a repetition of the humiliating defeat suffered by the U.S.
raid that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden . Also, by providing the U.S. the body of the spiritual leader of the Taliban, the ISI and the Pakistani government wanted to re-apply for accreditation as a credible and reliable ally. Assuming that this reconstruction is true - and therefore that Mullah Omar was really killed - it is clear that there is a creeping rivalries between intelligence services in Kabul and those in Islamabad is now reaching a breaking point and it becomes increasingly difficult to to contain.
If you discover that the mullahs, whose head hangs from a size U.S. $ 25 million, was not killed, we should ask what the interest of the Afghans services (and the Karzai government) to spread a false story. If not to further weaken the credibility of the government in Islamabad, as the attack on the naval base in Karachi shows, is in a moment of maximum vulnerability.
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