Draft:Din Mohammad Hanif
Din Mohammad Hanif is one of the leaders of the Taliban and one of the key figures of this group.
Biography
Din Mohammad Hanif was born in 1963 in the district of "Yaftal-e Sofla", Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. He is a religious scholar. In 1985, he went to Pakistan and studied there in various schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, receiving most of his religious education in Peshawar.
Languages
In addition to local languages, Dari, Urdu, and Pashto, Din Mohammad Hanif is fully proficient in Arabic.
Presence in International Forums
He once negotiated with the Northern Alliance in Turkmenistan. He also appeared at a seminar at a university in Japan before the media and spoke on behalf of the Taliban.
He delivered a detailed speech at a scientific conference regarding Afghanistan at Doshisha University in the city of Kyoto, Japan last year. He is the first individual among the Taliban leaders to appear in the media and express the Taliban's stance to the participants. He currently lives with his family in Qatar.
Positions
- Member of the Leadership Council of the Taliban Political Office in Qatar;
- Minister of Planning after the capture of Kabul;
- Commander of Taliban forces in Badakhshan Province after the US invasion in 2003;
- Member of the Taliban Political Commission in 2004
- Member of the Taliban Leadership Council in 2004;
- Member of the negotiation team and responsible for relations with Central Asian countries in the Taliban Political Office;
- Minister of Higher Education and Minister of Planning after the capture of Kabul and during the Taliban rule;[1][2][3].