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IEA digs up Mullah Omar’s car, buried to escape US troops
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) members have dug up a white Toyota used by their founding leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid, to escape invading US troops twenty years ago.
Photographs posted to Twitter on Tuesday show a group of men digging up what appears to be a white Toyota station wagon that was covered in a sheet of plastic.
An IEA member, Muhammad Jalal, who posted the images to Twitter said: “This Toyota wagon was used by the late Amir to travel from Kandahar to Zabul province during the start of US-led invasion.”
“It is in good condition,” he said.
Senior IEA officials have called for the vehicle to be put on display at the national museum in Kabul, which already houses cars and coaches of former kings and prime ministers.
Another senior IEA member, Anas Haqqani tweeted: “A man travelled in this car who took part in the most amazing events in history.”
“He relied on God Almighty, he commanded in an unequal war against dozens of invading countries, and won. This memorial … should be kept in the country’s national museum.”
An IEA source meanwhile told the Guardian that Defence Minister Mullah Muhammad Yaqoub – Mullah Omar’s son – ordered officials to uncover the car, which had been buried for around 20 years.
The Guardian also reported that according to Bette Dam, the author of a biography of the late leader, Looking for the Enemy, Omar was known to have left his Kandahar base in a white Toyota at the end of 2001 after US-backed forces toppled the government in Kabul.
In her book she stated Omar would spend the rest of his life within walking distance of US bases despite a $10 million bounty on his head. US forces once searched a house where he was hiding, an aide told Dam, but did not find the entrance to a secret room that hid him.
Mullah Omar died in 2013, but the IEA only announced his death two years later.
Pakistan's Special Representative for Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq announced Friday that his country will provide 4,500 scholarships to Afghans.
These fully funded scholarships are in the fields of medical, engineering, agriculture, and others for graduation, post-graduation, and PhD studies, Sadiq said on X.
This month, over 22,000 applicants will take an online test, followed by interviews for final selection. The entire process will conclude within 45 days.
The envoy said that 33 percent of the scholarship seats are reserved for female students.
The White House has responded to US President-elect Donald Trump's claim that billions of dollars have been sent to the Islamic Emirate-controlled Afghanistan, saying that aid is being sent to the people of the country, not the Islamic Emirate.
“It’s not even believable. Billions of dollars, not millions—billions,” Trump said earlier this week, adding, “We pay billions of dollars to essentially the Taliban in Afghanistan. And that’s given by Biden.”
But White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told the Voice of America that the humanitarian aid sent to Afghanistan is going to the Afghan people, not the IEA.
Earlier, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) strongly rejected claims by Donald Trump that the ruling government is receiving “billions of dollars” from the United States.
Hamdullah Fitrat, the IEA’s deputy spokesman said: “The claims of billions and millions of dollars of aid to the Islamic Emirate from the US side are completely false and we strongly reject them.”
Pakistan's Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Thursday said a formal invitation had already been sent to Afghanistan to participate in a conference on girls' education.
The international conference on girls' education in Muslim countries would be held from January 11 to 12 in Islamabad with aims to address challenges and opportunities of women.
Siddiqui expressed the hope that representative from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) would attend the conference.
Addressing a news conference, the minister said that the conference, jointly organised by the MoFEPT and the Muslim World League (MWL), will be presided over by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
He said the ministry had already sent invitations to 57 counties which was confirmed by 48 countries and added the conference would be attended by leaders, policy makers, diplomats, religious scholars, educationists, and experts from Muslim countries.
The conference's keynote address would be delivered by Nobel Laureate and globally-acclaimed advocate for girls' education Malala Yousafzai, he added.
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