With the end of the Panjahir war and the defeat of The Masood, the Taliban have taken full control of Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, there is no longer any political force that dares to challenge the Taliban.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which was established, has also "divided merits" and made kings worship, and even the title of "Emir", which was once swept into the garbage heap of history, has returned to the afghan power system.
Emir, derived from Arabic, is the same origin as the emirate, to the effect of being the king, the highest nobleman, and is a very medieval title. And the Taliban's supreme leader, Akhonzada, is known as the "Emir." ”
The Taliban's central power figures were also given the title of "deputy emir", including Mullah Jacob.
The defense minister of the Taliban regime, a post-90s man, is only in his early 30s this year, and there are many labels on him, the most eye-catching of which is the Taliban's "prince." ”
What's going on with this Taliban prince? How did you get into the center of power at a young age? Let's look to his life for answers.
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In 1990, a 31-year-old religious school principal in Kandahar province welcomed his eldest son.
It was also in this year that the principal faced the situation of warlords in Afghanistan and was determined to clean up the mountains and rivers and make a career.
Four years later, he recruited outstanding students from his Islamic school and formed an army of more than 800 people. He named the team as a "religious student".
This team is the Taliban, and this principal is Omar, the founder of the Taliban, and his eldest son is Jacob, the defense minister of the current Taliban regime.
Jacob's growth path witnessed the Taliban's siege. The Taliban pulled out the banner of "eradicating warlords, rebuilding the country, opposing corruption, and restoring commerce" and sang triumphant songs all the way to Kabul.
In 1996, Jacob followed his father from Kandahar to Kabul to witness the establishment of the Taliban regime, when he was only 6 years old.
Since then, he has gone from being the son of an ordinary priest to becoming the "prince" of the Taliban. Omar had high hopes for Jacob, and from an early age he arranged a religious teacher to take him to study teachings and politics, and the young Jacob grew up to the age of 11 with the Qur'an.
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According to Afghan hereditary tradition, without the invasion of U.S. forces in 2001, Jacob would most likely have succeeded to the throne as the supreme leader of the Taliban after the death of his father.
However, 9/11 changed everything. After the outbreak of 9/11, the United States invaded Afghanistan on the pretext of hiding terrorists in Afghanistan and launched a 20-year war in Afghanistan.
The Taliban regime was destroyed by the superpower united States, the U.S. military overwhelmed the border, and the Taliban fled to Pakistan.
Jacob, the "Taliban Prince" who was dressed in fine clothes, also went into exile in Pakistan with his father, Mullah Omar, hiding among the lofty mountains of Pakistan, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.
The US military has frequently invaded the Taliban hiding in Pakistan, and the core team of the Taliban has also been displaced. Jacob gradually grew into a young man in this turmoil.
In 2013, Jacob was already a 23-year-old boy, compared to the children who grew up in Chengping, Jacob, who grew up in the war, was a teenager and an old man, who was already the right and left arm of his father Omar, and also had a lot of prestige in the Taliban organization.
There is no doubt that Jacob was trained as a successor, and Omar intended to pass on the position of chief to the eldest son after a hundred years.
However, the invasion of the US military changed everything.
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In 2013, Omar was killed in a U.S. invasion, leaving the Taliban leaderless.
In the succession struggle, Jacob was promoted to leadership of the Taliban, but Jacob knew that he was still young and did not have the energy of radicals and moderates in the U.S.
So, in 2016, he strongly recommended Akhonzada as the supreme leader of the Taliban.
Akhonzada reciprocated by appointing Jacob as the number two man in the Taliban's military line to oversee the group's military operations.
It turned out that the Taliban prince, quite politically savvy, used his father's reputation and took advantage of the factional struggle within the organization to replace the military chief Sadr four years later as the head of the Taliban Military Council.
Later, after Supreme Leader Akhonzada contracted COVID-19, Jacob became the acting leader of the entire Taliban, and until now, has become the Taliban's defense minister and deputy emir.
The son of the founder, the young and powerful political star, there is no doubt that the career will not be the fourth person of the Taliban.