Aug 4, (Zee News): Just days after the reports of former Taliban chief Mullah Omar's death surfaced, Afghanistan government on Tuesday said that his son Mullah Yaqub was killed last week in Pakistan's Quetta, reports said.

As per a report published in Afghan news site TOLO News, Mullah Omar's son was killed four days ago in a meeting in Pakistan's Quetta, Afghanistan's first deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) Zahir Qadir said.

Mullah Yaqub's killing is reported to be an outcome of power struggle between him and the current Taliban chief Mullah Mansour as both wanted to be the next chief of the militant group after Mullah Omar's death.

"We were told about Mullah Omar's death two years back and now his son Mullah Yaqub who was 21 or 22 years old was trying to be appointed as his father's successor. But Mullah Mansour also tried to become leader of the Taliban, therefore it is said that he was killed some days back," Qadir told TOLOnews.

Qadir further added that the "opposing Taliban and Pakistan had a hand in his killing".

There have been reports of increasing rift within Taliban after Mullah Mansour was appointed the chief as the reports of death of Mullah Omar became public.

As per a Tolo News report, Taliban factions have clashed thrice in the past 24 hours, with one attack on the convoy of the new chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour.