A senior Taliban spokesman announced on Wednesday that its leaders will show themselves to the world, a step change from the shadowy world they had previously inhabited.

For the first time on Tuesday, the world saw a leader who had only ever spoken to western media by phone, although they knew his name well.

"Slowly, gradually, the world will see all our leaders, there will be no shadow of secrecy," the senior Taliban official told Reuters on Wednesday.

It comes amid claims by Taliban spokesmen - they are all men - that there will be no reprisals, women's rights (under Islamic law) will be respected, terrorists will not be able to operate from Afghan soil and law and order will be maintained.

But who is in the inner circle of the new Taliban's leadership?

Sheikh Hibatullah Akhundzada

The group's supreme commander, designate Emir and commander of the faithful, has yet to be seen in public since the Taliban swept to power in Kabul.

A former member of the mujahideen resisting the Soviet invasion, Akhundzada became one of the earliest members of the Taliban in 1994 and held several offices during its period in power - especially in guiding its religious direction and promotion of "virtue".

After the US invasion in 2001, he became the chief justice in the organisation's Sharia courts and an advisor to Mullah Omar, the Taliban's founder.

He is reported to have remained in Afghanistan throughout the group's period out of power and settled many disputes in the group with fatwas, until, after the killing of the group's second leader Mullah Mansour by a US drone strike in 2016, he was appointed leader, but he may also have been active in Pakistan.

Among the last times he was heard from was in May, at Eid al Fitr, when he spoke through a Taliban spokesman, according to Pakistan's Tribune newspaper, to urge Afghans to come together for the "redevelopment of our homeland" and promised an "Afghan-inclusive Islamic system", without the risk of rights being violated.

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar

Baradar has been a key figure in the negotiations that led up to the deal with the Trump administration that prompted the US pullout, paving the way for the Taliban advance.

Seen meeting officials in Doha, China and Moscow, the Taliban's deputy commander of the faithful and apparent political leader was only able to do so because he was freed from prison in Pakistan in 2018 - shortly after Mr Trump's Afghanistan envoy Zalmay Khalilzad visited Islamabad - having been in jail since 2010.

His role as negotiator is expected to continue as the Taliban says it seeks an "inclusive, Islamic" government, but many remain sceptical, considering his past.

One of the co-founders of the movement, Baradar is the only surviving Taliban leader to have been personally appointed deputy by Mullah Omar, giving him near-legendary status among the faithful.

On Tuesday, he landed in Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban movement, ending 20 years of exile, having previously fled into neighbouring Pakistan after the US-led invasion in 2001.

During the group's 1996-2001 rule, he did not have an official government role but fought alongside Omar as he led the Taliban to seize power in 1996 and during the insurgency in later years.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/afghanistan-whos-who-in-the-new-talibans-inner-circle-12384557

Zabihullah Mujahid

The Taliban's main spokesman after the fall of Kabul, who set up a news conference from the presidential palace in the aftermath of the takeover, is the public face of the group attempting to present a moderate image.

Many journalists who had communicated with him on a phone or via other mediums over the years were shocked to finally see the man they had been dealing with.

For years, he had been a shadowy figure issuing statements on behalf of the militants but he pledged insurgents sought no revenge and that "everyone is forgiven".

Suhail Shaheen

Shaheen is another spokesman attempting to convey the more "inclusive" approach being adopted by the group.

Speaking to Sky News, he said "thousands" of schools were continuing to operate, the militants were "committed to women's rights, to education, to work and to freedom of speech, in the light of our Islamic rules".

The former editor of the English-language, state-owned Kabul Times during the Taliban's period of rule after 1996, before being appointed the Emirate's deputy ambassador in Pakistan, Shaheen was included among the group's delegates to peace conferences in Moscow.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/afghanistan-whos-who-in-the-new-talibans-inner-circle-12384557

Anas Haqqani

Anas is another member of the negotiating team in Doha who has been active since the fall of Kabul, meeting with former president Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, a senior official in the ousted government, with the aims of brokering eventual negotiations with Mullah Baradar.

His brother is Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, an insurgent Taliban sub group that used guerrilla warfare to fight against US-led NATO forces.

Sirajuddin Haqqani

The leader of the Haqqani network, who took over from his father Jalaluddin Haqqani when he died some time between 2016 and 2018.

As the proclaimed deputy leader of the Taliban, he had previously overseen armed combat against American and coalition forces, reportedly from a base within North Waziristan in Pakistan.

He is wanted by the FBI in connection with the January 2008 attack on a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed six people, including an American citizen, and planning an assassination attempt on then Afghan president Hamid Karzai in 2008.

He wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times in 2020, outlining what the Taliban sought from it negotiations with the Trump administration, saying it offered an "inclusive political system in which the voice of every Afghan is reflected", but in March this year he was heard in a broadcast speech lauding his followers' performance on the battlefield, which he said would "crush the arrogance of the rebellious emperors of the world".

So far, he has not yet been seen.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/afghanistan-whos-who-in-the-new-talibans-inner-circle-12384557

Khairullah Khairkhwa

Concerns have been raised about the possibility that Khairkhwa may have a major role in a forthcoming Taliban-led administration, as the former Guantanamo detainee has been accused of drug trafficking and of being a close associate of al Qaeda members, under Osama bin Laden, something he denies.

The Taliban's former governor of Herat was released from the US detainment camp in Cuba, along with four other senior Taliban members, in late May 2014, as part of a prisoner exchange that involved US abductee Bowe Bergdahl.

Khairkhwa is another in the negotiating team in Doha and, according to the New York Post, played a key role in driving forward the Taliban's strategy while in exile.

Mohammed Fazl

Perhaps the most infamous figure in the group of five released from Guantanamo in 2014 is Mohammad Fazl, a front-line commander who was the Taliban's deputy defence minister.

Human Rights Watch said he should have been prosecuted for his role in a massacre of more than 170 civilians in Afghanistan in January 2001, as well as other serious crimes.

They also allege he had overall operational command during a Taliban offensive to recapture the northeast Afghan town of Khwagaghar, also in January 2001, where more than 30 civilians were summarily executed, and was in charge when troops torched villages in the Shomali valley north of Kabul in 1999, summarily executing civilians in their path.

Source: https://news.sky.com/story/afghanistan-whos-who-in-the-new-talibans-inner-circle-12384557

Please expose your leaders so they can be bombed to hell.

Terrorists like Patami.

The senior men. Make I hail so that when I visit or my plane is flying over Afghanistan I will be safe.

The reincarnated Osama Biladens, Isah Pantamis, Abubarkar Shekaus of these times.The blood shedder and killer foot soldiers of a god that need to be fought for.Meanwhile, “A god who let us prove his existence must be an idol.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

I'm sure pantami is among those people thayh will be announced

Where is

Buhari
Pantami
El Rufai


Your list is not complete, check well

See their faces sef!! Men way no get joy.

Descendants of Cain, Ismael and Esau...

*. Genesis 4:8 "KJV:And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. "

*. Jeremiah 41:3 "KJV: Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war."

*. Genesis 28:9 "KJV: Then went Esau unto Ishmael , and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife."

*. Genesis 27:41 "KJV:And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob ."

if they don't kill they are not happy...

Mullar Ghani, Mullah Omar, Mullah Mousour


Mazi Kanu, Mazi Ekpa baby terrorist

Hmmmmmmmm

.

Hope PANTAMI’s name won’t be among

When there is proper organisational structure, it's usually hard to displace such an organisation

notice how almost half of them have once been caught but then released? Moral lesson, if you catch a terrorist, put him to death immediately

This is not necessary, why should we know their names?
In other ways if you'd got good internet gadgets and you're not earning @least 2,500 ngn on a daily basis from your online activities then you're behind.

https://www.nairaland.com/6705451/

These are the heroes who fought and sent western forces out of their own country

Long live the government of Taliban!

Quran, the worse gift to humanity

The book that destroy peace

Destroy mental balance

Destroy decent ideology

Destroy man trust to man

This can be a problem assigning a leader among themselves

They are rebranding.

Buhari will be pleased with this news

Ghostrye:
notice how almost half of them have once been caught but then released? Moral lesson, if you catch a terrorist, put him to death immediately

exactly

Terrence99:
Adapted from Dr Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam:


As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving Minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:

United States -- Muslim 1.1%

Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 3 %
Italy -- Muslim 2.5%
Norway -- Muslim 1.8%

At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.

This is happening in:

Denmark -- Muslim 2%

Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 4.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.


For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims.
They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply.

This is occurring in:

France -- Muslim 8%

Philippines -- 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions.

In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam.
Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:

Guyana -- Muslim 10%

India -- Muslim 19.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

Bosnia -- Muslim 40%

Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

Nigeria 50% Muslim

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

Albania -- Muslim 70%

Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%

Egypt -- Muslim 90%
Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
Iran -- Muslim 98%
Iraq -- Muslim 97%
Jordan -- Muslim 92%
Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
Palestine -- Muslim 99%
Syria -- Muslim 90%
Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
Turkey -- Muslim 99..8%
United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of "Dar-es-Salaam" -- the Islamic House of Peace.. Here there's supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:

Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%

Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
Somalia -- Muslim 100%
Yemen -- Muslim 100%

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.


It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by Sharia Law.

The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death.

Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.

Today's 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world's population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers.

this is as true as the sun!

Ghostrye:
notice how almost half of them have once been caught but then released? Moral lesson, if you catch a terrorist, put him to death immediately

Absolutely spot on. Terrorists deserve to be killed immediately they are caught. Shoot them and let dogs eat their corpses.

Ok

He who lives by the sword.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UA-z93YbZY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOqdjsK6k70

It will be pleasing to see it unveiled