KABUL: Taliban Highest Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada – who has never made a public appearance and whose existence is mostly unknown – there is in Afghanistan, the Islamic group Hardline confirms on Sunday.
“He was present in Kandahar.
He has lived there from the start,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
“He will soon appear in public,” added the Deputy Spokesman for Bilal Karimi.
What was called the commander of the faithful, Akhundzada had pasted the Taliban as his chief since 2016 when it was struck from relative obscurity to oversee the crisis movement.
Little is still known about the role of day-to-day Akhundzada, with its public profile mostly limited to the release of annual messages during Islamic holidays.
He had not issued any statement because the Taliban swept power and controlling Afghanistan in mid-August.
The Taliban has a long history of keeping their peak leaders in the shadows.
The founder of the Mullah Mullah Group Mohammad Omar is famous for its way ascetic and rarely traveled to Kabul when the group came to power in the 1990s.
Instead, Omar most of them were not seen in his complex in Kandahar, reluctant to even meet a visiting delegation.
Kandahar is the birthplace of the militant movement and the center of Islamic government Irami Taliban in the 1990s.