‘Mulla Omar alive’

Published August 5, 2002

KANDAHAR, Aug 4: Taliban leader Mullah Omar is still alive and on the run inside Afghanistan, but there has been no sign of Osama bin Laden for months, a senior Afghan official in the south of the country said on Sunday.

Ahmad Wali Karzai, brother of President Hamid Karzai and his special representative for the south, said in an interview there were regular reports of Mullah Omar travelling in southern Afghanistan with a small entourage.

“He is travelling by motorcycle or by foot,” he said in an interview in his house in Kandahar, adding that the Taliban supremo was not able to organize any opposition to the government. “The guy is on the run, and spends 24 hours a day planning how to run and where to run,” he said.—Reuters

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