QUETTA, PAKISTAN - Taliban leader Mullah Omar is not hiding in PakistanÂ’s Baluchistan province whose people will resist any U.S. attempt to extend its war against militancy there, the provinceÂ’s chief minister said on Friday.
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Afghan and foreign officials in Kabul have long said they believe several top Taliban leaders, including Omar, are hiding in Baluchistan. Pakistan, a U.S. ally in the campaign against militancy, denies that.
‘Mullah Omar is not in Baluchistan, he’s in Afghanistan,’ Baluchistan chief minister Mohammad Aslam Raisanitold reporters in the provincial capital, Quetta. ‘If the CIA has any evidence of that they should tell us and we’ll get him and send him there,’ he said, referring to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. |