The leader of the Taliban is in Afghanistan: He will soon appear in public for the first time – Topka

“She’s in Kandahar. She has lived there since the very beginning,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP. Mujahideen’s representative Bilal Karimi added: “I can confirm he’s in Kandahar. He’ll be in public soon.”

According to AFP, Áchúndzáda has been in the background so far and gained the position of leader in May 2016 after the death of his predecessor Muhammad Achtar Mansur. Until May 2016, there was little information about Áchúndzád, who until then had dealt more with judicial and religious matters than combat operations. According to some analysts, the role of this “scholar” at the head of the movement is more symbolic than operational.

Achundzada is the son of a Muslim theologian

Achundzada is the son of a Muslim theologian, originally from Kandahar, a Pashtun region in southern Afghanistan and the cradle of the Taliban movement. Ajman Zawahiri, the leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, also calls him a party of allegiance. This helped Achundzada gain credibility in the jihadist world.

The AFP said that Ahundzada was tasked with uniting the various wings of the Taliban movement, which had been dispersed after Mansour’s death and the revelation that the movement had hidden the death of its founder, Mullah Umar, who had died in 2013 for nearly two years.