How does the shadow dictatorship of the Taliban with its shadow leaders exist?
Author: Abdul Naser Noorzad, security and geopolitics researcher, especially for Sangar
The Taliban's defense minister asked the members of this group to obey Haibatullah Akhundzadeh, the so called leader of this group, and other authorities like "a dead person in a bathtub against a dead body". In this situation, this group obeys an invisible leader and blindly implements its orders.
Perhaps this group is among the first terrorist organizations that are forced to obey it without the necessary knowledge of the personality and existence of their leader. In the past, there were doubts about the existence or lack of a leader like Hibatullah. Now the Taliban officials themselves talk about its non-existence and turn all these doubts into certainty.
At the beginning of the emergence of this group, the Taliban had a leader named Mullah Omar, who had not seen him except for a few comments on narrations. No one was able to see the face of that one-eyed and illiterate man who ran here and there in the height of the war with the former Soviet Union, wandering to the blind trenches without understanding. This was a man who blindly followed a large movement of tribalist extremists, fanatical men without knowledge of history, culture, sanctity and guidance of religion?
Mullah Omer, apparently the leader of this group, was able to lead this group from the beginning of its appearance in 1994 to 2011; But don't show your face to anyone. This work seems rare and strange in movements that choose violence and war as a practical way to conquer and seize power for a specific idea. Because in today's world, leaders with their charisma, mobilizing power and ability to speak and convey content are able to draw the ignorant masses to follow them and push them in a direction.
But this was not the case of the Taliban leader. Despite his secret life, he performed miracles and sent thousands of unsuspecting Pashtun youths in an intelligence project to pursue an ideal that today, three years after its establishment, still breathes this extremist thinking and strange reading of religion.
it bleeds to the fate of these people, one eye for five whole years on 25 million people who are poor and tired of war and violence, gave the order of Amir al-Mu'minini, issued a decree, called Afghanistan an Islamic Emirate with the most unprecedented method of governance, and thousands of people were unaware. and forced the village to obey him. After the overthrow of the Talebi Emirate, he lived secretly in Pakistan for another decade, and even then no one managed to meet his hidden and violent face.
After spreading the rumor about his death, his other followers like Mullah Mansour also relied on the post of Amir al-Momenini in the same way and took the blood of thousands of people on their shoulders. Mullah Mansour was also removed from the scene of this shadow dictatorship in 2016 as a result of the game, and now a man named Haibatullah apparently assumes this shadow position.
Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid called the Taliban system "holy" and said that there is no alternative to it in the whole world. He rightly says that there is no military in the world like the Taliban with an invisible leader whose members are not sure whether the leader is alive or not to obey it.