Islamabad: Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, who appeared before the media for the first time in a decade at a press conference after the rebel group seized Kabul last month, said that he lived in the Afghan capital just under his nose that considered the figure of ‘ghosts like’ during the war .
Mujahid, who operated in the shadows for many years, also admitted that he studied at the Haqqania seminary in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan, which was also nicknamed at the University of Taliban or the ‘University of Jihad’ internationally.
“They (US National Forces and Afghanistan) used to think I did not exist,” Mujahid said to the Tribune Express newspaper in an interview.
“I fled their attacks and tried to catch me that they seriously considered that ‘Zabiullah’ was a figure made, not a true person who exists,” said a 43-year spokesman.
“However, I managed to move in Afghanistan freely.
I think this perception helps with it,” he explained.
“I live in Kabul for a long time, just below everyone’s nose.
I explored the width and breadth of the country.
I also managed to have direct access to the front line, where the Taliban took their actions, and the latest information.
It was quite confusing to the enemy We.
“Because of his shadow appearance for years, there was speculation whether a faceless spokesperson might be more than one person.
“US troops will often pay off the locals to get some information about my existence.
By using that information, as I said, they must launch dozens of intelligence-based operations hoping to find some of my traces,” he said.
“But I never left or.
Trying – even thinking about trying to leave Afghanistan.
“Mujahid, who was born in the Gardaz District in Paktia Province in 1978, said that he specialized in Islamic jurisprudence from the Haqqania seminary in Northwest Pakistan.
Minister of Internal Affairs Taliban, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Minister of Water and Mullah Energy Abdul Minister Mansoor and Telecommunications Najibullah Haqqani – All on the Black List of the United Nations – and Education Minister Maulana Abdul Baqi Haqqani studied at the Haqqania seminary, who regularly received grants from the Government in a row Pakistan.
Mujahid said he became a Taliban spokesman after his predecessor’s arrest.
He also said that he had never seen the founder of Taliban Mullah Umar.
“But I have worked with Sheikh Mullah Mansoor, and Sheikh is great,” he said, referring to the successor of Mullah Omar.