Recent revelation:A Dutch journalist, Bette Dam, who spent years in Afghanistan wrote a book ‘Searching for an enemy” within which she claims that Omer never died in Pakistan. She claims that he lived doggo in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2013. She says that Mullah lived about 3 miles off from a US base in Afghanistan and later near another US base. The document claims that he never lived in Pakistan. the knowledge came from a bodyguard who also said that Omer was buried in an unmarked grave when he died of a natural cause.

Mullah Mohammad Omar son of Molvi Ghulam Nabi Akhund was born in 1962. Given the title ‘Mullah’ or ‘one who gives’. He called himself a ‘Talib’- ‘the one who seeks’- as he claimed that he never stopped learning. He joined the ‘Jihad’ or ‘Holy war’ in 1980’s after the Soviet occupation and was appointed as commander of mujahideen. He was wounded four times and had also lost his right eye when a rocket ignited beside him.

 

He was born into a poor family with no political connection. He had a minimum of 3 wives and at least 6 children. His exact place of birth is uncertain and his childhood home was in Deh Rehwood-District within the province of Uruzgan, Afghanistan. He graduated from “Dar-ul-uloom Haqqania” in Nowshera within the province of KPK, Pakistan. He completed his religious education from there. He became a village Mullah and ran his own madrasa in Singesar village in Kandahar province Afghanistan.

In 1990 he became the leader of a group of students that eventually assumed control of Afghanistan. In 1994 he became the founding father of the Taliban. He was recognized because the ‘Ameer ul momineen’ (Commander of faithful). He became the founding father of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

Publicly there’s not much information about him while very limited pictures of him are found in records. After his death, Taliban posted another photo of him during which he could be seen in his young age having both eyes. He seldom left the town of Kandhar after he took over Afghanistan and barely met with outsiders. He was known for speaking little and living in austere conditions.

Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omer’s portrait from the time when he was a religious student. This is his only photo before he lost an eye.

After Sept. 11 attacks he became wanted. Some say that for over a year Omer had hidden in the mountains and deserts of south Afghanistan afterward he fled to Pakistan in late 2002 where he worked as a potato trader. The US had announced $10Million as a reward for any information resulting in his capture.

Vigilante: In 1994 one in every of his local commanders kidnapped and raped two teenage girls, it’s said that Omer felt obliged to require action. He recruited about 30 young religious students (Talibs), armed them, and attacked the commander’s base.

Later the commander was hung from the barrel of Omer’s tank gun and also the girls were freed. Omer said ‘we were fighting against Muslims who had gone wrong how could we remain quite after we could see crimes being committed against women and poor.

He died in April 2013 of tuberculosis. His death was kept secret for two years until it was revealed in July 2015 by an Indian newspaper first and Afghanistan national directorate of security later. His death was revealed during the peace talks of Taliban and US in Pakistan. The news of his death sabotaged the talks completely.

Some sources claimed that he had died in Pakistan. He wasn’t seen from almost a decade before a surprising biography was published by the Taliban showing his way of the living, day-to-day routine, and even his personal life. it had been published in four languages, it was five thousand words lengthy document.

 

 

 

 

 

Taliban spokesman Zabi Ullah Mujahid shared Mullah Umer’s residence pictures in province Zabul, Afghanistan on March 2019

 

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