Hardly anyone knows the supreme leader in depth. PHOTO/FILE - Supreme Leader, Habitullah Akhundzada It was at this time that his first and only image to date was published in the press, disseminated by the fundamentalists to feed the myth. He has no recognised military experience. Akhundzada, unlike his predecessors, did not make his mark on the battlefield. There was little else to explain his surprising appointment beyond being considered a great ideologue. The Shura, or Supreme Council, the Taliban's governing body, then anointed him as his successor because of his religious and organisational credentials, demonstrated in his early days as a member of the Vice and Virtue Police and years later as a deputy leader of the group, of which he was one of its earliest members.
The death of Mullah Akhtar Mohamed Mansur in a US drone strike on Pakistani soil led to his ascension to the top of the movement in 2016. He waited until July to visit for the first time the capital of the country he rules with an iron fist, not to address the Afghan people, who barely recognise him, but to attend a closed-door assembly attended by 3,000 other clerics. But he did not leave his lair in Kandahar for months. should not give us their orders, it is our system, and we make our own decisions," he declared at the time. "Thank God, we are now an independent country.
The Taliban's armed uprising against the decaying Afghan army put the fundamentalist group back in command and automatically made him supreme leader. Hibatullah Akhundzada praised his movement's advance in every corner of the country and celebrated the historic seizure of Kabul in August 2021 as one more. He did not even appear in public when the Taliban regained power two decades later.
The clash of internal currents is wearing the movement down a year and a half after it regained power in Afghanistan.
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