Taliban Chief May Be In Pak Army Custody: Sources Cite Foreign Intel

Friday, 20 August 2021Newsdesk

Where is Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada? The Indian government has been studying information shared by foreign intelligence agencies and monitoring chatter from within the group's ranks to locate the secretive Akhundzada.

New Delhi, 20 August 2021

As per news report of NDTV, A senior government official has now indicated that he may be in the custody of the Pakistan Army, and that he has not been seen by the Taliban's senior leaders and fighters in the past six months. His last public statement came in May - to mark Eid al-Fitr, a holiday signalling the end of Ramzan. According to the official India is also very interested in how Pakistan will handle this issue. Haibatullah Akhundzada was appointed as the Taliban chief in May 2016, after former leader Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US drone strike. One of Mansour's two deputies, he was promoted at a meeting in Pakistan, according to a video statement shared by the group at the time.

Source -NDTV