Taliban increased training minister Neda Mohammad Nadim at a press convention in Kabul on August 26.
KABUL — Neda Mohammad Nadeem, Taliban’s increased training minister and a detailed aide to their chief, has claimed that world political and non secular leaders stay fascinated by the lifetime of Mullah Mohammad Omar, Taliban’s founder and ex-leader Taliban, and are nonetheless learning about him.
In an tackle delivered at a seminar in Kabul held at Kabul College however closed to the press, Nadeem, who’s son-in-law of Taliban reclusive chief Hibatullah Akhundzada, claimed that students and world leaders proceed to check Mullah Omar’s life, selections and affect.
“Mullah Omar was such a character that even as we speak, politicians, kings, and students all over the world are astonished by him,” Nadeem stated in an audio recording launched by the Taliban. “They’re nonetheless researching his life, his character, and the way he ended the chaos on this nation and established a pure Islamic system.”
No video footage of the occasion was shared by Taliban media, solely an audio excerpt of Nadeem’s speech. He described Omar’s rise as occurring at a time when Afghanistan was dealing with a management vacuum, and praised those that served him — together with students, Quran memorizers, and Taliban fighters — because the “finest people” in society.
Mullah Omar dominated most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, main a regime identified internationally for its extreme restrictions on particular person freedoms and widespread human rights violations. His rule systematically stripped ladies and women of entry to training, employment, and public life, and enforced the sporting of the full-body burqa.
The regime additionally applied harsh punishments below its strict interpretation of Sharia legislation, together with public executions, amputations, and stonings. One of the vital extensively condemned acts below Omar’s rule was the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 — an historic cultural and non secular heritage web site — which provoked worldwide outrage.
Omar’s harboring of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda following the September 11 assaults performed a direct function in the US’ resolution to launch a army invasion of Afghanistan. He remained in hiding till his loss of life in 2013, which the Taliban hid for 2 years earlier than publicly confirming it in 2015.
