'Official: Taliban Chief Mullah Omar In Afghanistan', The Associated Press, 20 March 2009
EXCERPT: "Taliban leader Mullah Muhammed Omar is not in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, a senior official said Friday, and urged the United States not to carry out missile attacks in the region. The New York Times reported this week that U.S. officials are weighing extending missile strikes into Baluchistan in pursuit of Taliban and al-Qaida leaders who have shifted from militant strongholds farther north. Western and Afghan officials have long suspected that Omar and other members of the Taliban government ousted by the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 have found refuge in or near the city of Quetta, Baluchistan's capital. Islamabad has challenged the United States to provide it with any evidence of Omar's whereabouts, insisting Pakistani forces will immediately move against the fugitive Taliban chief. The head of the Baluchistan provincial government insisted Friday that Mullah Omar was not there."
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See also:
'"Mullah Omar is not in Pakistan"', Times Now, 20 March 2009
'US cannot be fooled by denying presence of terrorists in Pakistan: Baloch leaders', Thaindian News, 20 March 2009
'US mulls deeper push into Pakistan', Hindustan Times, 19 March 2009
'FC chief rejects presence of Taliban in Balochistan', Daily Times, 19 March 2009
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