Afghan parliamentarian challenges world, Mullah Omer to appear shortly after assurances: Sultani

ISLAMABAD: Afghan Parliamentarian Huma Sultani Sunday challenged those who doubted her meeting with Taliban’s leader Mullah Omar in the suburbs of Kabul by saying that he would appear shortly after assurances of his security.
In a telephonic conversation with Online’s correspondent, she said that if the international community as well as the Afghan government guaranteed security to the Taliban’s supreme leader in case he appeared for negotiations, Mullah Omar would not hesitate to appear and hold talks with the Afghanistan government.
Huma Sultani, member of the Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of Afghan Parliament, said, “Mullah Omar is hiding nearby and I challenge all those who are questioning my credibility that after assurances, he would appear shortly. Then it would be proved whether I am true or false.” She said that she held a meeting with the Taliban supreme leader on June 28 last and exchanged views on the current political and security situation of the country.
Responding to some Taliban elements who had denied any such meeting between the two, saying Mullah Omar never meets with women, Huma said she was 200 times sure that she met Mullah Omar and another member of the Afghan Parliament Haji Abdul Baseer was a witness to that meeting. It is pertinent to mention here that Huma Sultani had addressed a news conference earlier on Friday in which she broke the news of her meeting but the news was not well received by the American and the international media and TV channels.
According to a news website www.opinion-maker.org even Pakistani media gave a dull response to the story that meant to relieve the country’s government and security of the immense pressure exerted by the US and allies over the reported presence of Mullah Omar in Pakistan.
Sultani also condemned the foreign media and news channels for trying to “underplay” her meeting with the Taliban’s leader and challenged them to prove her wrong. After the Friday news conference, she talked to Khyber TV, a Pushto netwrork on Saturday where to a question, she confirmed that it was only two days back that she met Mullah Omar in the suburbs of Kabul. According to sources, she is negotiating on behalf of Hamid Karzai, indirectly for the US. What she really discussed with Mullah Omar was not made public by her for obvious connotations that could jeopardize her position. What really matters is that when the US and even Hamid Karzai cry wolf and blame Pakistan for harbouring such persons stands exposed, said the sources. Even the May 2 incident is all shrouded in mysteries and secrecies on which pretext, Hillary Clinton came with a loud noise that Pakistan should produce Mullah Omar otherwise the US would take strong measures, said the sources. Obama too threatened Pakistan that if need be the US would attack and recover such people. Now the American duplicity stands exposed. With this story of Mullah Omar, now more doubts have been created about the truth of OBL. America would not disclose the story, even their media would not, if they do, it would sabotage their efforts, the sources concluded.