| Ex-potentate Mullah Mahommad Omar was rumored to be near Kandahar in the custody of a warlord sympathetic to the Taliban. Khaled Pashtoon, a spokesman for Gul Agha, said his group would demand that the Taleban Supreme Leader be handed over at an imprending tribal meeting. The South Asian Dispatch Agency, based in Pakistan, quoted Omar's spokesman Syed Tayyab Agha as saying both he and the Taliban chief remained in Kandahar. "I am here and will remain here until otherwise ordered," he said. "As long as Mullah Omar is here, I will be here. Many of our people are still in this city." Omar’s family entered Chaman, in Pakistan, after fleeing Kandahar the BBC Pushto service reported. It said the family was first spotted in two vehicles at Spin Boldak, and then they were seen at Chaman. |