List of Taliban leaders
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This is a list of Taliban leaders.
Supreme Commanders[]
Image | Name | Position | Situation |
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Mohammed Omar | Commander of the Faithful |
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Akhtar Mansour | Commander of the Faithful |
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Hibatullah Akhundzada | Commander of the Faithful |
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Deputies and ministers[]
Name | Position | Situation |
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Abdul Ghani Baradar | Governor of Herat and Nimruz Province | |
Obaidullah Akhund | Minister of Defense | |
Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil | Foreign Minister |
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Abdul Rahman Zahed | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs |
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Mohammad Hassan Akhund | First Deputy Council of Ministers |
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Mohammad Nabi Omari | Minister of Communications |
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Abdul Razaq | Commerce Minister |
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Khaksar Akhund | Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs |
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Qari Ahmadullah | Minister of Security (Intelligence) |
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Abdul Haq Wasiq | Deputy Minister of Intelligence |
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Nooruddin Turabi | Minister of Justice | |
Amir Khan Muttaqi | Minister of Culture & Information | |
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Abbas Akhund | Minister of Health |
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Abdul Raqib | First Deputy Council of Ministers |
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Governors[]
Name | Position | Situation |
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Abdul Kabir | Governor of Nangarhar Province | |
Khairullah Khairkhwa | Governor of Herat Province and Minister of the Interior | |
Norullah Noori | Governor of Balkh Province |
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Na'im Kucki | Governor of Bamyan Province | |
Ahmad Jan | Governor of Zabul Province |
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Mohammad Hasan Rahmani | Governor of Kandahar Province |
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Mir Muhammad | Shadow Governor of Baghlan Province in 2010 |
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Abdul Salam | Shadow Governor of Kunduz Province in 2010 |
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Abdul Salaam Alizai | Governor of Oruzgan Province in the 1990s |
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Other high-ranking officials, ambassadors and envoys abroad[]
Name | Position | Situation |
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Abdul Salam Zaeef | Ambassador to Pakistan |
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Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi | Envoy to United States |
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Abdul Hakim Mujahid | Envoy to the United Nations |
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Hammdidullah, aka Janat Gul | Head of Ariana Afghan Airlines |
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Field commanders[]
Name | Position | Situation |
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Mohammad Fazl | Chief of Staff |
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Dadullah | senior military commander |
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Jalaluddin Haqqani | military leader |
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Abdul Razaq Nafez | field commander | |
Shahzada | provincial commander |
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Gul Mohammed Jangvi | field commander |
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Akhtar Mohammad Osmani | field commander |
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Abdul Zahir | group commander |
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Mufti Nemat | field commander |
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Sheikh Ilyas Khel | Commander |
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Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan leaders[]
Name | Position | Situation |
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Fazlullah | Commander |
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See also[]
References[]
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According to well-informed diplomatic circles in Islamabad, the decision-makers in the powerful Pakistani establishment seem to have concluded in view of the ever-growing nexus between the Pakistani and the Afghan Taliban that they are now one and the same and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Quetta Shura Taliban (QST) could no more be treated as two separate Jihadi entities.
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"Taliban blames foes of killing mine-clearers". Independent Online. 2000-08-07.
The Taliban Governor in the province, Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa, has blamed the opposition Northern Alliance for the attack, saying the assailants have been arrested. The oppositions reaction was not immediately available.
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According to Haqyar, Mullah Noorullah Noori was a resident of Shah Joy district in Zabul province and had served as governor for Laghman, Baghlan and Balkh provinces.
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- ^ Mazari Sharif is not a Province.
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"Security council committee on Afghanistan designates further individuals, financial entities relating to resolution 1267 (1999) and 1333 (2000)". United Nations. 2000-04-12. Archived from the original on 2009-08-11.
In a note verbale addressed to Member States on 12 April 2000, the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) concerning Afghanistan designated funds and financial resources of the Taliban as per paragraph 4(b) of that resolution and approved a list of entities and/or persons that have so far been identified by the Committee based on information provided by Member States as falling under one of the categories mentioned in the above note, as well as in . The following entities have been added to the list ... Maulavi Ahmad Jan, Governor of Zabol Province
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We were not permitted to talk to each other, but could see one another while the food was handed to us. I eventually saw that Mullahs Fazal, Noori, Burhan, Wasseeq Sahib and Rohani were all among the other prisoners, but still we could not talk to each other.
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