{"id":13706,"date":"2025-10-08T22:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13706"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:33:36","slug":"rahmatullah-andar-taliban-leader-in-complete-intellectual-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/rahmatullah-andar-taliban-leader-in-complete-intellectual-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahmatullah Andar: Taliban leader in complete intellectual isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13708\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/andar-talibedeed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/andar-talibedeed.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/andar-talibedeed-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/andar-talibedeed-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/andar-talibedeed-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/andar-talibedeed-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Rahmatullah Andar: Taliban leader in complete intellectual isolation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Rahmatullah Andar, former spokesman for the National Security Council, says that Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada is now in complete intellectual isolation and only a limited circle of loyal people are in contact with him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to Andar, all political and religious power in the Taliban is concentrated in the hands of Haibatullah, and none of the group&#8217;s officials dare to oppose or even consult with him independently.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>He added that members of the so-called &#8220;Qatar Group&#8221; within the Taliban believe that the group&#8217;s leader ignores the interests of the country and the people, imposes his personal views on everyone, and only listens to the words of a few close mullahs who obey him without question.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Andar emphasized that these orders are neither compatible with the conditions of the time nor capable of being implemented.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>His remarks come as reports have emerged in recent months of increasing disagreements among Taliban leaders, especially in the area of \u200b\u200bpolitical and administrative decision-making.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahmatullah Andar: Taliban leader in complete intellectual isolation. Rahmatullah Andar, former spokesman for the National Security Council, says that Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada is now in complete intellectual isolation and only a limited circle of loyal people are in contact with him. According to Andar, all political and religious power in the Taliban is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13714,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706\/revisions\/13714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}