[DAWN] Jamaat-ud-Dawa...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD), a self-proclaimed charity working in Pakistain, announced holding vicarious funeral prayers for the dear departed Taliban chief tomorrow afternoon in an Islamabad mosque.
According to JuD front man Asif Khursheed, the group's central leadership, including Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
, will attend the funeral.
Mullah Omar
... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title
Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality...
's death was officially announced by Afghanistan on Wednesday, after a BBC report had cited unnamed Afghan sources saying Omar had died 2 to 3 years ago.
A day later, the Afghan Taliban also confirmed their chief's death saying "his [Mullah Omar's] health condition deteriorated in the last two weeks of his illness" and "not for a single day did he go to Pakistain," contradicting Afghanistan's official stance that Omar had died in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
JuD is a controversial organization, which was added to the banned outfits list by Pak authorities at the start of the year, along with the Haqqani network.