Abdul Kabir

Mohammed Abdul Kabir (Pashto: عبدالکبير) is a senior member of the Taliban leadership^[4] who is a militant leader and, since 4 October 2021, the acting third deputy prime minister for political affairs of Afghanistan in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime.^[5][6] He previously was the acting prime minister of Afghanistan from 16 April 2001 to 13 November 2001.^[7][8][9]

Mawlawi Abdul Kabir عبدالکبیر
Kabir in 2021
Acting Third Deputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs of Afghanistan
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 October 2021 Serving with Abdul Ghani Baradar and Abdul Salam Hanafi
Supreme Leader	Hibatullah Akhundzada
Prime Minister	Hasan Akhund (acting)
Preceded by	Position established
Acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan
Pro tempore[a] 17 May 2023 – 17 July 2023
Supreme Leader	Hibatullah Akhundzada
Prime Minister	Hasan Akhund (acting)
Deputy	Abdul Ghani Baradar (acting) Abdul Salam Hanafi (acting)
In office 16 April 2001 – 13 November 2001
Supreme Leader	Mullah Omar
Deputy	Hasan Akhund
Preceded by	Mohammad Rabbani
Succeeded by	Hasan Akhund (acting, 2021)
Member of the Leadership Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 August 2021
In exile May 2002[3] – 15 August 2021
Personal details
Born	1958/1963 (age 59–65) Paktia, Afghanistan
Occupation	Politician, Taliban member
Political affiliation	Taliban

The United Nations reports that he 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.

Career

In April 2002, Abdul Razzak told the Associated Press that Kabir was believed to have fled Nangarhar to Paktia, along with Ahmed Khadr.^[10]

The Chinese News Agency Xinhua reported that Abdul Kabir was captured in Nowshera, Pakistan, on 16 July 2005.^[11][12] Captured with Abdul Kabir were his brother Abdul Aziz, Mullah Abdul Qadeer, Mullah Abdul Haq, and a fifth unnamed member of the Taliban leadership.^[13]

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.^[14]

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.^[15]

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.^[16]

A report on 21 February 2010, stated that Kabir was captured in Pakistan as a result of intelligence gleaned from Mullah Baradar,^[17] himself taken into custody earlier in the month. Kabir was later released.^[18][19][20]

Notes

1. Abdul Kabir carried out the duties of acting prime minister while Hasan Akhund spent two months in Kandahar recovering from an illness.^[1][2]

References

1. Mohammad Farshad Daryosh (17 May 2023). "Mawlawi Kabir Appointed Acting PM As Mullah Hassan Akhund is Ill: Mujahid". TOLOnews. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
2. Adeeb, Fatema (9 September 2023). "Prime Minister's Absence From Meetings Raises Questions". TOLOnews. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
3. Sayed, Abdul (8 September 2021). "Analysis: How Are the Taliban Organized?". Voice of America. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
4. The list of individuals belonging to or associated with the Taliban Archived 23 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine, United Nations, 4 October 2006
5. "Afghanistan's Acting Taliban Cabinet Holds First Meeting". Radiofreeeurope/Radioliberty.
6. "د اسلامي امارت په تشکیلاتو کې نوي کسان پر دندو وګومارل شول". باختر خبری آژانس. 4 October 2021.
7. Ahmad, Israr (10 May 2001). "Reflections on a Visit to Afghanistan". IslamiCity. In addition to these, we had a detailed meeting with Mulla Abdul Kabir, the acting Prime Minister.
8. "World briefs: Fourth Taliban leader arrested". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 25 February 2010.
9. Heffelfinger, Christopher (March 2010). "CTC Sentinel". UFDC. 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.
10. Kathy Gannon (28 April 2002). "Dangerous feuds threaten Afghan war". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2010. 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.
11. "Top Taliban commander held in Pakistan". Xinhua. 19 July 2005. Archived from the original on 29 January 2007.
12. Top Taliban leaders captured, Shia News, 19 July 2005
13. Correspondent, Digital (17 May 2023). "Maulvi Abdul Kabir appointed as Afghanistan's acting PM". Pakistan Observer. Retrieved 17 May 2023. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
14. Roscoe G. Bartlett (19 July 2006). "jihadists who are no longer a threat". Congressional Record. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012.
15. Pakistan plans all-out war on militants, Asia Times, 19 October 2007.
16. Report: Taliban appoint new regional chief in Afghanistan, Xinhua, 21 October 2007.
17. "Taliban leader 'held in Pakistan'". 23 February 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2023 – via BBC News.
18. "Major Taliban Operative Captured in Pakistan". Fox News. 21 February 2010. Archived from the original on 24 February 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2010. 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.
19. Amir Mir (1 March 2010). "Pakistan wipes out half of Quetta Shura". The News International. Archived from the original on 9 March 2010. 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.
20. Filkins, Dexter (24 March 2010). "After Arrests, Taliban Promote a Fighter". The New York Times.

Political offices
Preceded by Mohammad Rabbani	Acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan 2001	Vacant Title next held by Hasan Akhund (acting, 2021)
New seat	Acting Third Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan for Political Affairs 2021–2023 Served under: Hasan Akhund (acting PM)	Incumbent