Haibatullah Akhundzada
...Deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour...
, the new Taliban leader, in an audio message attributed to him, vowed to continue the policy of his predecessors Mullah Omar
... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title
Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality...
and Mullah Mansour.
In a two-page Pushto-language communiqué released to the media, Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid conceded that Mansour had been killed in a drone strike by the "American tyrant" somewhere "between the border region of deserts of Kandahar and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
’s Nushki" district on Saturday.
The bad boys’ confirmation came four days after it emerged that Mansour had been killed in a drone strike in Nushki while returning from a visit to Iran. A Pak passport and national identity card found at the scene of the attack identified the dear departed as Wali Muhammad, a resident of Qila Abdullah.