Washington, Jan. 19: Pakistan spy agency ISI rushed Afghan Taliban leader, the one-eyed Mullah Omar, to hospital after he suffered a heart attack earlier this month. He was treated at a hospital in Karachi, said a report prepared by a private intelligence network.
The Washington Post reported that the elusive Taliban leader had a heart attack on January 7 and was treated for several days in a Karachi hospital with the help of Pakistan’s spy agency Inter Services Intelligence.
The intelligence network, which runs under the auspices of a private company The Eclipse Group, said its source was a physician in the Karachi hospital.
The physician said he saw Mullah Omar trying to recover from an operation to put a stent in his heart.
“While I was not personally in the operating theatre — the doctor reported as saying — my evaluation based on what I have heard and seeing the patient in the hospital, is that Mullah Omar had a cardiac catheter complication resulting in either bleeding or a small cerebral vascular incident, or both.
A US official from Kabul said: “No one on this end has heard this.” But he quickly added that it doesn’t mean it’s not true — we just have no information to confirm or dispute these facts.
Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, Mr Husain Haqqani, on Tuesday said the report had no basis.