KABUL: In the days for taking power in Afghanistan, various Taliban leaders have entered Kabul command – Hardened, students of Armed Madrassa and leaders who gazed from the years of exile.
There has been a main exception – the highest group leader.
Hibatullah Akhundzada – called the commander of the faithful – has pasted the Taliban as his pieces since 2016 when struck from relative obscurity to oversee the crisis movement.
After taking control again, this cleric was assigned to Mammoth’s challenge to bring together the jihadist movement which briefly broke out during the struggle for bitter power.
The magnitude arose when the group was beaten with a consecutive blow – the murder of the predecessor Akhundzada and Wahyu that the leaders had hidden the death of the Founder of Taliban Mullah Omar.
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.
Apart from one photo released by the Taliban, the leader never made public appearance and his existence remained unknown.
Since controlling Kabul in mid-August, the group remained tight about the Akhundzada movement.
“You will soon meet him, God willing,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters this week when asked about the existence of Akhundzada.
The ongoing silence came when the head of the Taliban faction openly preached at the Kabul Mosque, met with opposition figures, and even chatted with Afghan cricket officials in the past few days.
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.
However, his words were rules and no single figure appeared to order the same respect.
Laurel Miller – The head of the Asian program in the international crisis group – said Akhundzada “seems to have adopted a similar closed style” with Omar.
The confidentiality might also be driven by security reasons, Miller added, citing the murder of his predecessor Mullah Akhtar Mansour with US drone attacks.
“A Taliban spokesman has indicated their leader will soon appear, and he might have a reason to do it to cancel suspicion of his death,” Miller told AFP.
“But it’s also possible after showing himself he will pull and train his authority in a long way, as Mullah Omar did.” Akhundzada absence followed many years of rumors about his health, with chat in Pakistan and Afghanistan suggested that he had contracted Covid or had been killed in the bombing.
There are never many ways to prove this rumor, but Akhundzada’s confidentiality comes at sensitive time for Istama’s rebellion.
There are various Taliban factions consisting of groups from Afghanistan, representing a large number of constituents.
Revelation In 2015 that Taliban’s leadership for years hidden death Mullah Omar triggered a struggle for brief but bleed power, with at least one large-splitting faction from the group.
As a transition to the Taliban from the battle to governance, balancing the interests of many of their factions will be very important to consolidate power.
Any vacuum power will risk messing up the movements that have succeeded in continuing cohesive after decades of conflict, tens of thousands of foot soldiers were killed, and top leaders were killed or sent to the US prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Others suggest that the group might just wait for the time until the US LED forces made their last way from Afghanistan in the coming days.
“The Taliban considers themselves in jihad” as long as foreign forces are in the land of Afghanistan and will likely make their leaders hidden until they leave, said Pakistani-based security analyst Imtag Gul.
“That’s why the highest leader doesn’t appear.”