MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Earlier on Wednesday, Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency confirmed Mansour's death through its spokesman. On Tuesday, reports emerged of the Taliban convening its Shura council to possibly pick Mansour's successor within three days.
"The Taliban will, most likely, try to take revenge for the death of their leader, after all, some 60-70 percent of them supported Akhtar Mansour from the start. So to say that in the given situation the Taliban will run and start agreeing to talks is simply naive," Kabulov told RIA Novosti.
Mansour was elected at a previous Shura near the western city of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan region, in mid-2015 after Taliban eventually acknowledged his predecessor’s death in 2013. Mansour was killed in a US drone strike near the Afghan border in Balochistan on Saturday.
