Mulla Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban leader, does not appear in public, but the Taliban group has systematically and deliberately worked to create a sacred image of him during their four years of renewed rule.
Recently, the Taliban’s Ministry of Justice emphasized in the “Poetry Regulation” law that poets do not have the right to criticize the Taliban leader’s orders, decrees, and decisions in their poems.
This shows that the Taliban group seeks to create a sacred figure from a leader whose face ordinary citizens have never seen, by creating an atmosphere of repression and suffocation.
Only a number of Taliban officials, forces, and their supporters claim to have met with Mulla Hibatullah Akhundzada, but reaching the Taliban’s “Amir al-Mu’minin” is impossible for ordinary people.
In the past four years, only a few audio recordings attributed to the Taliban leader have been released, recordings that have not reduced the existing ambiguities about him.
The Taliban leader has confined himself to his residence in Kandahar, and even his exact location is unknown.