| Ex-potentate Mullah Mohammad Omar and a band of diehard fighters shot their way out of Kandahar on Friday and are hiding in nearby mountains, a Pakistani newspaper claimed. The News daily quoted Taliban sources as saying Omar's forces engaged in a fierce gunbattle with fighters loyal to Hamid Karzai before leaving town in a convoy of vehicles. Frontier Post, on the other hand, says Mullah Omar was captured Friday night and is near Kandahar in the custody of warlord Khalid Pashtoon. In Kabul, Mullah Abdul Raouf, who had been banned by the Taliban from preaching in his own mosque, said an international tribunal should try Omar and sentence him to death. |