Draft:Abdul Latif Mansur
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| Name | Abdul Latif Mansur |
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| Birth Place | Paktia Province, Afghanistan |
| Brith Date | 1968 |
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| Religion | Islam |
Abdul Latif Mansur (born 1968) is a politician from Afghanistan. He was appointed as the acting Minister of Energy and Water of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 7 September 2021[1].
Background and Education
He spent most of his life in Pakistan and completed his religious education in this country at Darul Uloom Haqqania Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa[2].
Birth and Family
Abdul Latif Mansur was born in 1968 in Garde Sarai District, Paktia Province. He is the nephew of Nasrullah Mansur and belongs to the Sahak Khailzai tribe.
Political Activities
On 31 January 2001, he was listed as the Minister of Agriculture of the Taliban government, thus falling under the scope of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1333 (2000) regarding the actions and activities of Taliban officials. Abdul Latif Mansur has been a member of the Taliban Supreme Council since 2009 and was the head of the council's political commission.
In 2009, he was the Taliban shadow governor in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, and in mid-2009, the head of the Taliban political commission. In May 2010, Abdul Latif Mansur was one of the senior Taliban commanders in eastern Afghanistan. It is believed that Abdul Latif Mansur led the Peshawar Council. Before his arrest in Pakistan in February 2010, Maulvi Abdul Kabir led it. It is believed that Sheikh Muhammad Aminullah led the Peshawar Council. He replaced Abdul Latif Mansur in early 2011.
Abdul Latif Mansur is the former Minister of Agriculture during the Taliban Emirate and the nephew of Nasrullah Mansur, who led a mujahideen party against the Soviet occupation called the Islamic Revolution Movement (Islamic Revolution Movement). As an Andar Pashtun from Zurmat District, Paktia, he is one of the few non-southern Pashtuns in the Taliban leadership. Mansur is the "chief of staff" of the Taliban leadership (Akhtar Mansur?) and secretary of the Leadership Council. A distant relative described his job as overseeing all 12 commissions and organizational sections of the council. Before the news of Mullah Omar's death was released, some analysts familiar with the Taliban structure considered him the third-ranking official in the Taliban.
Militarily, Taliban groups loyal to Mansur operate in southeastern Afghanistan under the Taliban military hierarchy, not as parallel to the "Haqqani Network", but as uneasy allies. The areas under their control have overlapped, and there have been conflicts at times. Mansur was the head of the Peshawar Council and the political commission until 2009. That year, he was arrested by Pakistani authorities for talking about peace with the then head of UNAMA, Kai Eide. Six years later, his involvement in the first "official" talks with the Afghan government is quite ironic, as Pakistan today at least ostensibly seeks a political settlement in Afghanistan (though under its own control, of course). Mansur has been described by various sources such as family and Taliban sources as someone who rejected ISI proposals for participation and rejected their attempts to connect with him.