“Mullah Omar is Unfit”

Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar is mentally unstable and suffers fits, a British daily said here on Sunday.

“He locks himself away for two or three days at a time. The official line is that he is having visions, but he is suffering from brain seizures,” the doctor who attends Omar was quoted by the Sunday Telegraph as saying.

This mental instability is the real reason why Omar, the 43-year-old cleric, is so reclusive, the Telegraph said in a report from its correspondent in Quetta.

Doctors believe Omar’s mood swings may be because of a shrapnel lodged in his brain during a Russian rocket attack on his mosque in 1989, when he also lost an eye.

Apart from these fits, the Taliban leader also suffers from serious depression, alternating with bouts of childlike behaviour where he sits in the driving seat of one of his cars, turning the wheel while making the noise of an engine. Hindustani Times