Playboy and the Mullah

Shortly before his unmarked aircraft landed, Pakistan announced the capture in Quetta of Mullah Obaidullah, deputy to the elusive Taliban chief, Mullah Omar.

The Saudis even invited Taliban officials including Mullah Omar to perform the Hajj .

Now this is not to say Afghanistan is a place full of people like Mullah Mustafa.

Haider Al Mullah, a member of the Allawi list, said today that they might nominate Adel Abdul Mahdi for prime minister.

Do good Muslims have any pets? Or does it depend on which branch of Islam or what mullah one decides to follow?

A local newspaper called 8am claimed that the order of Rokhshana s stoning was issued by a cleric, Mullah Yosuf, who asked her to marry his brother many times despite her consistently refusing.

The threat of an Islamist takeover of Pakistan comes not from the Taliban, but from groups that have long drawn support from the Pakistani army as part of a long standing military mullah alliance.

Yet, by passing the blame for their ongoing terrorist proxy policy to their mullah puppets, the generals have made the US believe that the key is to contain the religious fringe, not the puppeteers.

And Mullah Mustafa he's the man with the pen and paper explained that the man sitting immediately to the left as you look at the photograph, Nadir Shah had bet him that he couldn't hit me.

Two listed individuals have registered as candidates for the 18 September parliamentary elections Mullah Abdul Samad Khaksar, the former Taliban deputy (security) minister of interior affairs, and Abdul Wakil Mutawakil, the former Taliban minister for foreign affairs.

Mullah Mohammed Omar the Taliban s leader, who is reportedly in hiding in Pakistan must understand that if the Taliban uses any formal political influence it gains in Afghanistan to support terrorist activities, it will face united regional opposition.

The Pakistani media revisited a famous comment by Mohammad Iqbal, the poet philosopher who devised the idea of an independent Muslim state in Pakistan. The religion of the mullah, he said, is anarchy in the name of Allah.

This bodes well for the resumption of talks, given that Pakistan played a leading role in facilitating the Taliban s emergence and is now home to the Afghan Taliban s ruling council, including its leader, Mullah Omar, along with the Pakistani Taliban.

On 7 August 1998, American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were bombed under the direction of Osama bin Laden, and all pipeline negotiations halted, as the Taliban's leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, announced that Osama bin Laden had the Taliban's support.

The threat of an Islamist takeover of Pakistan comes not from the Taliban, but from groups that have long drawn support from the Pakistani army as part of a long standing military mullah alliance. That is where the focus of the fight should be.