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In addition to these, we had a detailed meeting with Mulla Abdul Kabir, the acting Prime Minister.
Baradar's arrest was followed by the capture of the Taliban's shadow governors for Afghanistan's Kunduz and Baghlan provinces—Mullah Abdul Salam and Mullah Mir Muhammad—in addition to former Taliban acting Prime Minister Maulawi Kabir and former Zabul Province shadow governor and head of "the commission" Maulawi Muhammad Yunos.
Abdul Razzak, a former loyalist of dissident Afghan leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, told The Associated Press he met Abdul Kabir, the former governor of Nangarhar province and the No. 3 man in the Taliban, just two weeks ago in Paktia province. Razzak also said Saeed Al Khadr, an Egyptian Canadian and one of the 20 most-wanted al-Qaida members, is in Paktia after fleeing Nangarhar with Kabir. Khadr was implicated in the suicide bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan in the 1990s that killed 17 people.
Mulvi Kabir, the former Taliban governor in Afghanistan's Nangahar Province, and a key figure in the Taliban regime was recently captured in Pakistan, two senior U.S. officials tell Fox News. Kabir, considered to be among the top ten most wanted Taliban leaders, was apprehended in the Naw Shera district of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province by Pakistani police forces in recent days.
According to well-informed diplomatic circles in Islamabad, the decision-makers in the powerful Pakistani establishment seem to have concluded in view of the ever-growing nexus between the Pakistani and the Afghan Taliban that they are now one and the same and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Quetta Shura Taliban (QST) could no more be treated as two separate Jihadi entities.
Abdul Kabir عبدالکبیر | |
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![]() Kabir in 2021 | |
Acting Minister of Refugee and Repatriation | |
Assumed office 18 January 2025 | |
Supreme Leader | Hibatullah Akhundzada |
Prime Minister | Hasan Akhund |
Acting Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan | |
3rd Deputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs 4 October 2021 –9 January 2025 | |
Supreme Leader | Hibatullah Akhundzada |
Prime Minister | Hasan Akhund |
2nd Deputy Prime Minister before 25 January –13 November 2001 | |
Supreme Leader | Mullah Omar |
Prime Minister | Mohammad Rabbani |
Acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan | |
Pro tempore [a] 17 May 2023 –17 July 2023 | |
Supreme Leader | Hibatullah Akhundzada |
Prime Minister | Hasan Akhund |
caretaker 16 April –13 November 2001 | |
Supreme Leader | Mullah Omar |
Member of the Leadership Council | |
Assumed office 15 August 2021 | |
In exile May 2002 [1] –15 August 2021 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1958/1963 (age 59–65) Paktia,Afghanistan |
Occupation | Politician,Taliban member |
Political affiliation | Taliban |
Mawlawi Abdul Kabir (Pashto :عبدالکبير) is an Afghan politician and a senior member of the Taliban leadership. [2] Since 18 January 2025,he is the acting Minister of Refugee and Repatriation. From 4 October 2021 to 9 January 2025,he was also the acting third Deputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs of Afghanistan in the internationally unrecognized Taliban government. [3] In the previous Taliban regime,he was the acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 16 April to 13 November 2001. [4] [5] [6]
The United Nations reports that during the first Taliban regime,Kabir was Second Deputy of the Taliban's Council of Ministers;Governor of Nangarhar Province;and Head of the Eastern Zone. The U.N. reports that Kabir was born between 1958 and 1963,in Paktia,Afghanistan,and is from the Zadran tribe. The U.N. reports that Kabir is active in terrorist operations in Eastern Afghanistan.
In April 2002,Abdul Razzak told the Associated Press that Kabir was believed to have fled Nangarhar to Paktia,along with Ahmed Khadr. [7]
The Chinese News Agency Xinhua reported that Abdul Kabir was captured in Nowshera,Pakistan,on 16 July 2005. [8] [9] Captured with Abdul Kabir were his brother Abdul Aziz,Mullah Abdul Qadeer,Mullah Abdul Haq,and a fifth unnamed member of the Taliban leadership. [10]
On 19 July 2006,United States Congressman Roscoe G. Bartlett listed Abdul Kabir as a former suspected terrorist who the US government no longer considers a threat. [11]
In spite of these reports,intelligence officials quoted in Asia Times indicated Kabir and other senior Taliban leaders may have been in North Waziristan,Pakistan,during Ramadan 2007,planning an offensive in southeastern Afghanistan. [12]
Xinhua reported on 21 October 2007,quoting from an account from Daily Afghanistan,that Abdul Kabir had been appointed commander in Nangarhar,Laghman,Kunar and Nooristan provinces. [13]
A report on 21 February 2010,stated that Kabir was captured in Pakistan as a result of intelligence gleaned from Mullah Baradar, [14] himself taken into custody earlier in the month. Kabir was later released. [15] [16] [17]
On January 9,2025,Kabir was appointed Acting Minister for Refugees and Repatriation by Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada,following the assassination of Khalil Haqqani. He was also dismissed from his post as Acting Deputy Prime Minister. He was sworn in on 18 January. [18] [19] [20] [21]