(AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - The head of the Taliban, Mullah Muhammad Omar is not the kind of person to live outside of Afghanistan, making unconfirmed reports of his arrest in neighbouring Pakistan unlikely, according to former Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan Aziz Ahmed Khan."Mullah Muhammad Omar got religious education in Afghanistan, he lived through and through in Afghanistan. The only time he lived in Pakistan was during early 1990s when he studied a three month course of Islamic jurisprudence from slain Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi in Karachi's Jamia Binori Town," said Khan, amassador to Kabul during the Taliban regime, recounting to Adnkronos International (AKI) on Tuesday a conversation he had with Omar.
"As soon as he finished his course he went back to Afghanistan. It has never been in his nature to live out of Afghanistan. Therefore I don't think that he ever lived in Quetta or in Karachi after the Taliban's defeat in Afghanistan," Khan said.
Afghan television Tolo television reported Omar was arrested Tuesday in the port city of Karachi.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, contacted by news agency New China, denied the new of the arrest calling it western propaganda.