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Mullah Omar in Pakistan: Karzai
Source: PTI December 08, 2003 11:09 IST
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai believes Mullah Mohammed Omar, the elusive leader of the Taliban, may be operating from Pakistan.
Mullah Omar was spotted praying in a mosque in Quetta, in northwest Pakistan, ten days ago. "This is the first time that I have said this publicly," Karzai was quoted as saying in US magazine
Newsweek.
Taliban rebels are getting support in Pakistan and Quetta has become their main base, he said adding he had asked Pakistani leaders to stop Pakistani Islamic groups from providing them sanctuary.
Pakistan Information Minister, however, denied that Mullah Omar was in his country. "It is a lie," he told
Newsweek.
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