Report: Mullah Omar Spent Last Week in Karachi Hospital
Taliban Leader Said to Have Heart Attack on January 7
Reports coming out of Pakistan claim that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar had a heart attack on January 7 and spent much of last week in a hospital in Karachi. He has reportedly since been released.
Omar, one of the most wanted men in the world, was said to have had a stent put into his heart, and was under the protection of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency during the duration of his visit. He is said to be recovering in an ISI safehouse.
The claims come from a private spying network run by former US officials, ctiing a doctor who was working at the Karachi hospital and saw Omar recovering after the operation. Pakistani Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani, as he so often does, angrily denied the claims, insisting they were a plot to give Pakistan a bad name.
Yet it has been repeatedly reported and occasionally verified that the ISI has strong historic ties to the Afghan Taliban, and has sought to use its influence over the group to negotiate a role for itself at any reconciliation talks for Afghanistan.
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Aarky
January 18th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
WOW!! If this is true, the CIA and our military in Afghanistan is having a bad case of heartburn. The ISI headquarters building should be worried about a drone strike coming their way.
JLS
January 18th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
If only we gave Pakistan more foreign aid…yea that should do it.
Matt
January 19th, 2011 at 1:02 am
imagine that.
ghouri
January 19th, 2011 at 2:07 am
CIA knows every inch of Karanchi and the target killers in Karachi are CIA and RAW agents then why not they have arrested Mullah Umer.
US has nothing to do except blame games and killing innocent Pakistanis and Muslims around the world.
emistruth
January 19th, 2011 at 5:43 am
Mullah Omar has never attacked America. He did harbor Usama Bin Laden who allegedly did. While the Taliban are lost in some medieval Moslem fantasy, they are not a threat to anyone but themselves and other Middle Eastern nations locked in the same fantasy. If America unilaterally withdrew all forces and bases from the area and then waited to assist those governments that were friendly to genuine Western interests, most all extremists would stand down and those who remained standing would be simply criminals to be dealt with by law enforcement agencies.
mike
January 19th, 2011 at 9:12 am
More BS. Was OBL holding his hand throughout the procedure?
Ian
January 19th, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Yeah ….drone attack on ISI headquarters.Great idea to end the War in Afghanistan and start a much larger one against Pakistan.
Ian
January 19th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
I agree, the US is good ally ..Sure….. They only ally(Master) the US cannot afford to cross is Israel, all other allies are expendable and all dependent on opportunity.
masmanz
January 19th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Private spying network run by former US officials? Can such a thing actually exist right under the nose of ISI? If it can, then ISI is already a failed agency and has been thoroughly compromised by the CIA.
Andrewp111
January 19th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
In a hospital for a whole week! Why couldn't the CIA find out in time to send in a few assassins and fill Omar's heart with hot lead.