8am: Taliban leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has recently issued a decree on women’s rights. This decree focuses more on the rights of marriage, inheritance, and unsavory traditions. It does not mention the right to work, education, and political participation of women and girls in the new government. It also does not specify the extent to
AFP: Officials of the ousted Afghan regime and many Western analysts are sceptical, believing that Akhundzada died years ago. For them the madrassa visit was a carefully choreographed deception. There is a precedent — the Taliban pretended founder Mullah Omar was alive for two years following his death in 2013. Click here to read more
Al Jazeera: The supreme leader of the Taliban, Haibatullah Akhunzada, has warned the group that there may be “unknown” entities among their ranks who are “working against the will of the government”. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 31, 2021 The reclusive leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban made a rare public appearance at a religious school in the city of Kandahar on October 30. Taliban Supreme Leader Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada had not been seen in public since he became the Taliban leader in 2016, even after the movement took
#فوری به هلاکت رسیدن امیرالمؤمنین گروه تروریستی طالبان تایید شد! نقل قول یک عضو ارشد طالبان: "امیر المؤمنین شیخ هبت‌الله آخند، سال گذشته در اثر حمله انتحاری خودی در پاکستان به شهادت رسیده بود. اینکه امروز رهبران ما بنام امیر المومنین فرمان میدهند فریب مسلمانان جهان است" pic.twitter.com/5Fzvo7E6B7 — Vatan Today (@vatantoday) October 15, 2021
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 14, 2021 The Taliban is denying reports that the former head of their political office in Doha has been killed in a shoot-out with another senior Taliban figure during an argument over how to divide power in a Taliban-led caretaker government. The denials come amid persistent rumors of internal divisions
By Abubakar Siddique September 7, 2021 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty The Afghan Taliban has named a reclusive, hard-line Sunni cleric as its supreme leader in a still-unrecognized governing structure weeks after a dramatic takeover in which the militants seized most of Afghanistan even before the final withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces. Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada, 55,
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 7, 2021 The Taliban has named its reclusive leader Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada as a supreme leader and a founding leader, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, to lead a new Afghan regime as the radical fundamentalist group seeks to establish its rule after the UN-backed government collapsed in mid-August. The announcement by Taliban
Abdul Sayed VOA News September 5, 2021 After two decades of near-constant warfare and destruction, the Taliban now face the need to figure out how to govern the underdeveloped and impoverished nation they have just recaptured. Some insight into how that may progress can be gleaned from a closer look at the group’s leadership and
Tahir Khan Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News August 29, 2021 KABUL/ISLAMABAD – A senior Taliban leader confirmed to VOA on condition of anonymity that the group is in the final stages of announcing a new Cabinet that was expected to include all members of its current Rahbari Shura, or leadership council. Taliban supreme commander Hibatullah Akhundzada