KABUL Mohammad Omar, a report said on Thursday.
An American newspaper “Stars and Stripes” quoted unnamed senior Taliban political official as saying that as many as 1,000 scholars with various ties to the Taliban, including some of the group’s top religious leaders, began meeting in the area south of Quetta on Wednesday.
Omar’s brother Mullah Abdul Manan, eldest son Mullah Mohammad Yaqub and a significant faction within the insurgency oppose the election of Mansoor as the group’s supreme leader.
Mansoor . . .
