Mawlawi Mohammad Dawood Muzamil, the Taliban governor, was killed in a suicide attack in Balkh.
Mazar-i-Sharif, March 3 - Sangar, Qari Ahmad. He was one of the commanders of Mullah Akhtar Mansur, the second leader of the Taliban, and was considered one of the "Iranian Taliban".
Sangar's source in the Balkh Police Department, in an explanation of this news, said that today, March 9, at 9:30, a suicide bomber attacked the governor when he was about to enter his office.
"This incident took place in the corridor of the second floor of the provincial administration building. The suicide bomber, who had reached the corridor with a vest filled with explosives before the governor arrived, blew himself up about 12 meters from him and his entourage," the source said.
As a result, Mawlawi Mohammad Dawood Muzamil, the governor of Balkh, and one civilian were killed and another civilian was injured, he said. Other sources report the murder of two more bodyguards of Mavlavi Dawood.
Another source told Sanger that a large number of wounded were transferred from the provincial administration building to the Ibn Sina hospital in Mazar-i-Sharif.
“The building of the provincial administration is cordoned off by the Taliban, traffic is blocked. They even turned off the phones of the doctors of the Ibn Sina hospital. It is not known how many more were injured as a result of this explosion,” the source said.
Other sources provide more interesting details about Mawlawi Dawood, indicating tension not only within the Taliban but also intensifying foreign powers' rivalry in the Afghan scene.
According to them, Mawlawi Dawood, nicknamed Muzamil, was from the Girishk district of Helmand province and was one of the commanders of Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the second leader of the Taliban (April 23, 2013 - May 21, 2016). Mullah Mansour was killed by an American drone in Pakistan's Balochistan in 2016 while returning from Iran.
The source reports that during the 20 years of the existence of the pro-American republic, Mawlawi Dawood fought against British forces stationed in the provinces of Helmand and Zabul.
“He gained his fame in these wars with the British and, especially, earned the trust and attention of the Iranian intelligence services,” the source said.
After the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, Mawlawi Dawood was the governor of Nangarhar and then the deputy interior minister of the Taliban. In October 2022, by order of Mullah Haibatullah, he was appointed to replace Mawlawi Qadratullah Hamza, who had been the governor of Balkh since the Taliban came to power.
Sources say Mawlawi Daud is known as the "Iranian talib" and an opponent of ISIS, and he and other commanders close to Akhtar Mansour suppressed the first ISIS cells in Zabul and Helmand in 2015.
“Osman Ghazi, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan who joined ISIS, was killed by the ‘Iranian Taliban’ led by Mansour, one of whom was Mawlawi Dawood,” the source said.
At the same time, according to information provided to Sangar from northern Afghanistan, the Haqqani network, in collusion with the US and Pakistan, moved about a thousand ISIS fighters from Pakistan to the Afghan North, the borders of Central Asia last month, in particular the provinces of Badakhshan, Takhar, and Kunduz.
Apparently, Mawlawi Dawood, the “Iranian talib” or anti-ISIS fighter, was seen as a serious obstacle to the implementation of this plan in Balkh, the largest and key northern province. The project of igilization of northern Afghanistan, implemented for years by the US, the West, and Pakistan, is approaching a critical stage. This situation has aroused the sensitivities of Russia, Iran, and the countries of Central Asia.
So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the killing of Mawlawi Dawood, but it is not surprising that ISIS will. The question of how the suicide bomber got into the provincial building of Balkh remains open. It's no secret that ISIS in Afghanistan is under the control of the Pakistan-controlled Haqqani network.
