Former Taliban Ministers Surrender

KABUL - Three ministers in Afghanistan’s vanquished Taliban have surrendered to their conquerors while the hunt for the supreme Taliban leader again focused on rugged southern mountains, local officials said on Tuesday.The Taliban’s enemies had so far failed to net any major leaders of the fundamentalist movement, or any cabinet members, in their hunt for supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and his cohort, Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden.However, one man who chose not to give himself up was a wounded al Qaeda fighter holed up for weeks in a hospital in southern Kandahar who blew himself after he failed to escape.Reports on the status of the three ministers and other senior Taliban officials were confused, however. “Ministers of the Taliban and senior Taliban are coming one by one and surrendering and joining with us,” Khalid Pashtoon, spokesman for Gul Agha, the governor of Kandahar, told Reuters by telephone. ReuterEnds