What is Mullah Omar?
{{Infobox President |honorific-prefix = <small>[[Mullah]]</small> |name = Mohammed Omar<br />{{lang|ps|مُلَّا مُحَمَّدٍ عُمَرَ}} |image = |caption = Mullah Omar in 1978 |order = [[Amir al-Mu'minin|Former Head of the Supreme Council of Afghanistan]] |primeminister = [[Mohammad Rabbani]]<br />[[Abdul Kabir]] <small>(Acting)</small> |term_start = 27 September 1996 |term_end = 13 November 2001 |predecessor = [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]] <small>(President of Afghanistan)</small> |successor = [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]] <small>(President of Afghanistan)</small> |birth_date = 1959 |birth_place = [[Kandahar Province]], [[Afghanistan]] |death_date = 23 April 2013 |death_place = [[Zabul Province]], Afghanistan |party = [[Islamic and National Revolution Movement of Afghanistan]]<br />[[Taliban]] |battles=[[Soviet-Afghan War]]<br />[[Civil war in Afghanistan]]<br />[[War in North-West Pakistan]]}} [[Mullah]] '''Muhammad Umar'''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Azfar|date=2021-05-10|title=Mullah Omar - On War and Peace|url=https://www.cage.ngo/mullah-omar-on-war-and-peace|access-date=2022-10-31|website=CAGE|language=en-US|archive-date=2022-10-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031153400/https://www.cage.ngo/mullah-omar-on-war-and-peace|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Taneja|first=Kabir|title=The Taliban has trumped the US in Afghanistan|url=https://www.orfonline.org/research/the-taliban-has-trumped-the-us-in-afghanistan-61913/|access-date=2022-10-31|website=ORF|language=en-US}}</ref> (1959 - 23 April 2013) was the founder of the [[Taliban]] in [[Afghanistan]]. He was usually called '''Mullah Omar'''. He came from a religious family of [[Islamic]] scholars near [[Kandahar]]. After Afghanistan was invaded by the [[Soviet Union]] in 1979, he joined the [[Mujahideen|Afghan mujahideen]] to fight in the [[Soviet–Afghan War]]. He served as an important military general during several skirmishes, losing his right eye in an e