The Taliban has conceded Mullah Mohammad Omar, the one-eyed Afghan cleric who transformed a mob of 50 madrasa students into a national insurgency, is dead amid reports it has appointed a supporter of peace talks as his successor.
The statement, which followed denials of Omar’s death and recent statements in his name, said he had died “some time ago”, without specifying when. The Afghan government believes he died in a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan in April 2013.
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