Akhundzada, who has led the Taliban since May 2016, has hardly appeared in public before. The Taliban has shared one single old passport photo of him.
Afghanistan in early October, the ruling Islamist Taliban movement published a complete list of ministers for its government, as well as selections for key positions and leadership positions in the armed forces. Afghan news channel Tolo News published an extensive nomination, which began with the mention of the Taliban’s top leader Haibatullah Akhundzadan confirmed the appointments.
“If he’s alive,” the news channel added to his news. Nowadays, the article looks like a lost channel from the web page and remains short news appointments.
Indian news channel CNN 18 news for its part, said on Friday with certainty that Akhundzada had died in an attack by Pakistani armed forces as early as last year. The source of the channel was the Taliban leader “Sheikh of Amir al-Mumin”. The first part of the name means the leader of the believers, who is also the title of Akhundzada. Director Sheikh is a previously unknown greatness.
American Conservative magazine New York Post published an article last week in which it interviewed several people in Kandahar province. Interviewees testified that they saw Akhundzada after the Taliban announced in late August that he had returned to Kandahar.
The Taliban Akhundzada, who has led since May 2016, has not appeared in public before at all. The Taliban has shared one single old passport photo of him. Another photo appears in a poster published by the Taliban after his conquest of Kabul two months ago.
Official photograph of Haibatullah Akhundzada
Akhundzada previously led the refugee government in Quetta, Pakistan and held its headquarters in the mosque of the small town of Kuchlak for 27 kilometers from the center of Quetta towards the Chaman border station.
In August 2019, a bomb attack was carried out at the mosque against the leader. The spirit of Akhundzada was spared as he had canceled his participation in the Friday prayer. His brother died in the attack Hamdullah Akhundzada and father Muhammad Akhund. The attack was apparently part of an internal Taliban power struggle.
Akhundzadan son Hafiz Khalid Akhundzada died in a July 2017 suicide bombing in Gereshk, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, according to the Taliban.
According to information confirmed by several sources, the 23-year-old boy, also known as Abdur Rahman, was on a Taliban suicide program. He and his comrades loaded four tons of explosives into three Humvey SUVs stolen from U.S. forces and drove to a roadblock.
Helmand was then divided into responsibilities between British soldiers and the U.S. Armed Forces, and Gereshk was in U.S.-controlled territory. However, no foreign casualties were reported, so the potential casualties could be Afghan government soldiers. The government again denied the whole blow.
High the age of the leader is unknown, but he is said to have been born the son of an imam in a small village in the Kandahar region in 1960. He was not one of the founders of the Taliban but later befriended the first leader of the movement, Mullah Muhammad Omarin with.
Omar died in 2013, but it took the Taliban two years before it announced the death of its leader. For its part, the meager information line at the time is fueling the ongoing rumor mill about Akhundzada’s death.
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