Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has fled Afghanistan for Pakistan, RIA Novosti quoted a senior Northern Alliance official as saying Tuesday in neighboring Tajikistan.
Mukhitdin Mekhti, a senior representative of the Northern Alliance's government in exile in Dushanbe, added that Northern Alliance forces took control Tuesday of the main Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, the Russian state news agency reported -- AFP
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