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Pakistan officially confirmed the death of the former Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour for the first time on Thursday, five days after the American drone strike that killed him on Pakistani soil, raising diplomatic tensions.
The United States of America has extended an offer to new Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada for peace process and hoped he would seize the opportunity.
Taliban militants confirmed the death of their supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor on Wednesday, and also announced a less-known religious scholar, Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada as the new leader of the insurgent group.
Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor had been killed by a U.S. military drone inside the Pakistani town of Dalbandin in the southern Balochistan province on Saturday, with the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) and U.S. President Barack Obama both confirming his death.
Afghan Taliban top leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was reportedly killed by a U.S. drone strike launched at a small town in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan along the Pak-Afghan border, reported local Urdu TV channel ARY on Sunday.
Cracks further appeared within Taliban rank as infighting between supporters of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor and his opponents headed by Mullah Mohammad Rasoul have killed 15 fighters from both sides in the western region of Afghanistan since Sunday, officials said Tuesday.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif alongside Afghan president Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday once again described Afghanistan's enemy as Pakistan's enemy and vowed to facilitate the resumption of the stalled peace talks between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban outfit.
The new Afghan Taliban chief, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, has not closed the option of the fragile peace talks in his first audio message the group released to the media at the weekend.
The Afghan Taliban on Thursday confirmed the death of their leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, one day after Afghan government announced his demise, the outfit said in a statement without saying when and where Omar passed away.
A key commander of Taliban militants named Mullah Momin in southern Afghanistan gave up fighting and joined the government in the southern Uruzgan province late Tuesday night, a senior police officer in the region said Wednesday.
Pakistan has freed three more senior Afghan Taliban leaders, taking the number of freed Taliban to nearly fifty in one year, official sources said late Tuesday.
Pakistan on Wednesday denied claim by the Afghan Taliban that their second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has not been freed despite official announcements about his release.
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