Scores of people were killed and dozens others injured in a suicide attack during a convention of the government-allied Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl party in Bajaur district. Last week, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stopped short of accusing Afghanistan’s Taliban government of knowingly allowing attacks from its soil, but he did reportedly say militants were operating from “ sanctuaries ” in the neighbouring country. Since the Taliban surged back to power in Afghanistan two years ago, Pakistan has

Others, however, say he is more of a figurehead, picked as a compromise candidate during a time of flux in the movement, while the real power is held by the Taliban's military factions." There is very little information available about him.... But he was a compromise between the young and inexperienced son of late Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, and Sirajuddin Haqqani, who was wanted by the U.S.in connection with a deadly 2008 attack on a Kabul hotel, sources told Reuters at the time....

. Taliban supreme commander Haibatullah Akhundzada will be the top leader of any governing council

.... " It will take time." While the Taliban's supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada has

. There has been one major exception-the group's supreme leader. Hibatullah Akhundzada-the so-called

Taliban has taken over, while the Islamist militant movement’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada

, while the Islamist militant movement's supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, would likely remain in

in a statement that the Taliban’s leader, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the head of Afghanistan

Akhundzada.... That puts nine out of the 34 regions in the hands of the insurgents. While Kabul has not

.... Akhundzada is infamous for legalizing poppy cultivation for the area in 1981( now the primary driver