{"id":38542,"date":"2021-10-31T19:57:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T10:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/31\/reclusive-taliban-supreme-leader-rare-public-appearance-haibatullah-akhundzada"},"modified":"2021-10-31T19:57:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T10:57:16","slug":"reclusive-taliban-supreme-leader-makes-rare-public-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38542","title":{"rendered":"Reclusive Taliban supreme leader makes rare public appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haibatullah Akhundzada said to have visited religious school in Kandahar, confounding rumours of his death<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban\u2019s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, has made a rare public appearance in the southern city of Kandahar, Taliban officials announced on Sunday, contradicting widespread rumours of his death.<\/p>\n<p>Akhundzada, known as the leader of the faithful or Amir ul Momineen, had not been seen in public since the Taliban\u2019s August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/13\/taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan-is-an-earthquake-for-middle-east\">takeover of the country<\/a>, giving rise to the speculation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/31\/reclusive-taliban-supreme-leader-rare-public-appearance-haibatullah-akhundzada\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haibatullah Akhundzada said to have visited religious school in Kandahar, confounding rumours of his deathThe Taliban\u2019s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, has made a rare public appearance in the southern city of Kandahar, Taliban officials announ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38543,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38542\/revisions\/38543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}