Taliban leader to world: Stop interfering with us

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 03, 2022 12:25 am

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.

MAN OF MYSTERY This file photo released by the Afghan Taliban on May 25, 2016 shows who they claim is Hibatullah Akhundzada at an undisclosed location. AFP PHOTO

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