Mullah Omar in Karachi: report

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Afghan Taliban, has found refuge from potential US attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi, a US paper reported citing three current and former US intelligence officials. The US intelligence sources earlier claimed that Mullah Omar had been residing in Quetta, where the Afghan Taliban shura - or council - had moved from Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
A US newspaper citing two senior U.S. intelligence officials and one former senior CIA officer claimed that Mullah Omar traveled to Karachi last month after the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He inaugurated a new senior leadership council in Karachi, the officials said.
The officials, two of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the topic, the paper said. Bruce Riedel, a CIA veteran and analyst on al Qaeda and the Taliban, also claimed that Mullah Omar had been spotted in Karachi recently.