Mullah mansoor biography definition wikipedia

Akhtar Mohammad Mansour [ a ] s — 21 May was the second supreme leader of the Taliban. Succeeding the founding leader, Mullah Omar , he was the supreme leader from July to May , when he was killed in a US drone strike in Balochistan, Pakistan. Mansour was born sometime during either , , or The biography released on a Taliban website showed his date of birth as in the solar Hijri calendar, which corresponds to This year is corroborated by S.

Mehsud, of the C. West Point. According to Ahmed Rashid , Mansour belonged to the Alizai tribe, but other sources claim that he was of the Ishaqzai tribe, [ note 2 ] in any case, both the Alizai and the Ishaqzai are of the Durrani line of Pashtuns.

Akhtar Mohammad Mansour (s – 21 May ) was the second supreme leader of the Taliban.

According to the Taliban, Mansoor was educated at a village mosque and joined primary school at about the age of seven. Mansour is alleged to have owned a cell-phone company, among other investments, and is claimed to have been wealthy as a result of his profiting from the dealings of Ishaqzai drug dealers. An undamaged Pakistani passport in the name of "Wali Muhammad" was recovered near the burned-out car at the scene of the drone attack that killed him; the passport is believed to have belonged to Mansour.

Sometime in , he joined the jihadi war against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan , participating in the Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi group. During the same time Mohammad Omar was a commander of an organization within Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi. Mansour participated in the war against the Soviet military within Maiwand , Sang-e-Hessar, Zangawat and other parts of the city, and the Pashmul area of the Panjwai district, under the command of Mohammad Hassan Akhond, apparently commanded by him at least while fighting at the last location.

During he was apparently injured, sustaining 13 separate wounds while stationed at Sanzary area of Panjwai district in Kandahar, according to the Taliban. Known as one of the prominent warriors, Mansour joined the Maulvi Obaidullah Ishaqzai group in but later Ishaqzai surrendered to Nur ul-Haq Ulumi , now the interior minister.