Recently, the Afghan Taliban has been on the hot search.
So who are the three generations of Afghan Taliban leaders?
Omar
The first generation of leaders of the Afghan Taliban was called Mullah Mohammed Omar.
Born in 1959 to a poor peasant family in the village of Nordeh in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, Omar was a farmer to a farmer-friendly family who was a deep believer in Islam and took on the responsibility of supporting his family at an early age.
In 1979, after Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, Omar's family moved to Uruzgan Province in central Afghanistan. At that time, Omar, who was still in college, actively participated in the Islamic Revolution "Jihad" against the Soviet invasion led by the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan, Mehmed, and became a rocket launcher, in which Omar took the lead and performed bravely, destroyed many Soviet tanks, was wounded four times and lost his right eye in a battle, hence the name "One-Eyed General", and was later promoted to deputy commander.
After the Withdrawal of the Soviet Union in 1989, Omar returned to his hometown to work as a religious school principal. Faced with warlord scuffles, Omar is determined to make a difference.
In August 1994, Omar recruited students from the Islamic school in the Kandahar refugee camp in Afghanistan to form the Taliban, an armed Afghan faction of just over 800 people, which means "religious students" in Arabic.
The Taliban's slogans of rooting out warlords, rebuilding the country, fighting corruption, and restoring commerce won the hearts of the people, and many commanders in the southern region defected to his command, and under his leadership, the Taliban gradually developed into the most powerful force among the Afghan factions, with more than 50,000 troops.
In September 1996, when the Taliban seized the capital Kabul and subsequently took control of more than 90 percent of the country's territory, Omar established a six-member commission as an interim government to take over the reins of power and rule the country, and since then, Omar has de facto become the supreme leader of Afghan politics.
Mansour
The second generation of Taliban leaders was called Mansour.
He was also born in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, and is a fellow citizen of Omar. During the jihad against the Soviet Union, Mansour forged a deep friendship with Omar, and after the Taliban came to power, he served as the top leader of the Taliban parliament and the Taliban minister of civil aviation and transportation.
However, after the events of 9/11, the United States believed that bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan, first letting Omar hand him over. Omar did not surrender, so the United States sent troops to Afghanistan, and the Taliban were forced to step down and hide in the mountains to continue fighting.
On April 23, 2013, Omar was wounded and killed in a U.S. bombing campaign. On his deathbed, Omar designated Mansour as the second generation leader of the Taliban. However, Mansour was also unfortunate, as in May 2016, Mansour was killed in a U.S. airstrike. Thus, the Taliban regime was transferred to the third generation of leaders.
Akhonzada
The third generation of Afghan Taliban leaders is called Akhuzada.
Akhonzada, an ethnic Pashtun, was born in 1961 in the Nurzai tribe of Kandahar province, two years younger than the first leader, Omar.
He was a cleric. After the Taliban took control of power in Afghanistan in 1996, Akhonzada worked as a teacher at an Islamic school run by the Taliban's founder, Omar, from which many of the Taliban's top figures came. After the Afghan Taliban were ousted by U.S. troops, Ahunzada preached and taught at a mosque in the southwestern Pakistani town of Kuchirak.
Akhonzada is religiously knowledgeable and good at words. When the Taliban's predecessor, Mansour, was challenged, it was Ahunzada who tried to persuade everyone to recognize Mansour as supreme leader, and he became Mansour's deputy. Mansour also naturally designated Akhonzada as his successor in his will.
Ahunzada himself has a calm personality. According to his students' recollections, during a lecture, a man suddenly stood up from among the students and pulled the trigger on Akhuzada, but the pistol jammed. In the midst of the chaos, Akhonzada did not move.
Akhonzada has 5 key personnel under his command, manipulating the normal long-distance movement of the Taliban.
Taliban top brass
Akhonzada's five deputies are the following.
1. Baradal: in charge of political affairs
2. Muhammad: in charge of the military
3. Haqqani: In charge of the "Haqqani Network"
4. Abdul: In charge of justice
5. Abbas: Mainly engaged in diplomacy.
So what did the 5 deputies of Akhonzada, the third generation leader of the Taliban, do? Take a look at tomorrow's article.