KABUL, Jan 1: The anti-Taliban intelligence chief in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar said on Tuesday he had asked villagers in neighbouring Helmand province to hand over Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

“We have told them to give us Omar, but no ultimatum has been issued,” said.

“We have two goals: to disarm irresponsible people and to get Omar who is a criminal for the Afghan people and the whole world,” he said.

He said he and tribal allies had massed a force of up to 2,000 fighters who could attack the site where Mullah Omar is believed to be hiding.—AFP

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