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Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, [b] also spelled Haibatullah Akhunzada, [c] is an Afghan cleric who in 2021, became the supreme leader of Afghanistan in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime. He has led the Taliban since 2016, and came to power with its victory over U.S.-backed forces in the 2001–2021 war .
Hibatullah Akhundzada has been supreme leader since the Taliban took control of the government in August 2021, and he has issued a large number of decrees, many of which have imposed his cultural views, ultraconservative even by Taliban standards, on the country with no opportunity for public consultation. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The current supreme leader is Hibatullah Akhundzada, who assumed office in exile during the Taliban insurgency on 25 May 2016, upon being chosen by the Leadership Council, and came to power on 15 August 2021 with the Taliban's victory over U.S.-backed forces in the 2001–2021 war.
After the 2021 return to power of the Taliban, Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada centralized power and began to communicate mostly through his three deputies. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In March 2023, Oxford Analytica reported that he had not convened the Leadership Council for several months, instead consulting the local Kandahar provincial council of ...
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This is a table chart of the current governors of Afghanistan.Provincial governors are all appointed by the supreme leader of Afghanistan. [1] Provincial governors are often interchanged between provinces and it is not uncommon for the governor of a province to have prior served as provincial governor of multiple provinces.
Akhundzada is an Afghan surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amir Muhammad Akhundzada (born 1977), Afghan politician; Hibatullah Akhundzada (born 1961), leader of the Afghan Taliban; Mohammad Nasim Akhundzada (died 1990), mujahideen commander in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
A men-only "caretaker cabinet" [245] was appointed by Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada on 7 September 2021. [246] [247] BBC News stated that the Ministry of Women's Affairs appeared to have been abolished. [247] Another two veterans were named two weeks later as deputies. [248]