Afghan Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour passed away

Kabul: Afghan Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour passed away because of injuries, a senior official said.
Former Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar was replaced by Akhtar Mansour.
Sultan Faizy, spokesman for Afghanistan first Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum, tweeted: “Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour died of injuries.”

Former Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar was replaced by Akhtar Mansour.

However, Taliban leadership by Mansour has divided the hardliner group into factions and the prominent one is led by Mullah Mohammad Rasoul, a close aide to Omar’s family.

Akhtar Mansour was injured in a factional fighting in Quetta city of Pakistan on Tuesday and finally died of injuries, Xinhua reported.

Taliban’s purported spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, in a statement, has rejected the report as baseless.

Mujahid said that intelligence agencies, by launching such baseless propaganda, were attempting to deceive the public opinion.

The media, citing former Taliban leader Mullah Amir Khan Mutaqi, reported the death of Mullah Mansour on Thursday.