Mullah Omar's son leading Taliban: Taliban senior member

EghtesadOnline: A senior member of terrorist group of Taliban has announced that the group is being led by Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, son of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the first Taliban supremo.

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08 August 2016

Mohammad Akbar Agha, a senior member of Taliban, made the announcement while exclusively speaking to IRNA here.

Mohammad Akbar Agha, who is among relatives of the former Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, is now living in Kabul under surveillance of the Afghan government.
However, he says he has not been isolated from Taliban yet.

Before Taliban was toppled in Afghanistan, Akbar Agha says he was leading Jaish al-Muslimeen group in this country.

When members of Taliban group were fighting for gaining power in Afghanistan, Akbar Agha and Akhtar Mansour were equal in terms of power.

As he says, one front of Taliban was being commanded by him and the other by Akhtar Mansour.

Akbar Agha says that Taliban has asked him to attract forces, but he has refused because as soon as he starts it, he will face disagreements.

Instead, as he notes, he has started to attract forces for Afghanistan's High Council of Salvation and is also determined to make all Afghan tribes join the Council in order to halt war and bloodshed in this country.

Akbar Agha says that he will start his work with 10,000-member work force to extradite foreign forces from Afghanistan and bring peace to the country.

He notes that he has shared his plans with Taliban leaders and they have had no disagreement with them.

His plans as he says stress that no foreign forces from neighboring countries or other world powers should meddle in internal affairs of Afghanistan.