Pakistan Army, Afghan Taliban Reject Report About Mullah Omar's Surgery in Karachi
"He [ISPR spokesman] said that news is unfounded and concocted to serve vested interests," it added.
Meanwhile, the Afghan Taliban have also dismissed the report as the "enemy's baseless claims" that Mullah Omar was treated in Karachi.
"The Afghanistan Islamic Emirate categorically rejects the unfounded and groundless claims by the enemy and describes such rumours as part of propaganda war launched by the enemy," Xinhua quoted a Taliban statement, as saying.
Released by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, the Pashto-language statement said that Mullah Omar was not suffering from any such disease that would require hospitalisation.
"The enemy is spreading all these rumours to hide their military defeat (in Afghanistan) and to divert attention of the people," the statement said.
The Washington Post had reported on Wednesday that an intelligence network, operating under the auspices of a private company-"The Eclipse Group" - said the elusive, one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban was "rushed" to the hospital on January 7 by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.Read More Story,
