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KABUL: The Taliban's reclusive supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada on Friday called for the world to stop telling them how to run Afghanistan, insisting that sharia law was the only model for a successful Islamic state.
Akhundzada, who has not been filmed or photographed in public since the Taliban returned to power last August, was addressing a major gathering of religious scholars in Kabul called to rubber-stamp the hardline Islamist group's rule.
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