Taliban leader goes to Kandahar for the second time!

According to local sources, Taliban leader Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzadeh visited the Darul Uloom Hakima school in Kandahar on October 30, where he spoke to religious scholars and Taliban forces.

“May God reward the oppressed people of Afghanistan for 20 years of fighting the infidels and oppressors. I pray for you here and I ask you to pray for me,” Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzadeh said in the speech.

He had previously attended a meeting of the Taliban leadership council in Kandahar on 31 August.

Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzadeh, the current Taliban leader, is from the city of Panjwai in Kandahar province and is said to be about 60 years old. He was elected the second Taliban leader after the assassination of Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour on May 21, 2016. In recent years, there have been reports that he was killed in an explosion in Quetta, Pakistan, or that he was suffering from coronavirus or heart disease, which has been denied by the Taliban.