3. Biodata:
Shaikh Maulvi Jan Mohammad Madani son of Mohammad Akram, was born in 1954 in Siachoi village of Zhari district, Kandahar province. He has studied elementary and intermediate religious classes in various mosques and madrassas across the country. He graduated from Darul Uloom Haqqania, the notorious “jihadist university”, in 1978 with a certificate from the Federation of Islamic Schools. He joined the Faculty of Sharia at the Islamic University of Medina in 1981. After graduating in 1987, he came to Afghanistan. During the jihad against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1989), he was the deputy head of the education department in the southwestern part of the Jamiat-e-Islami organization. In the Taliban’s exile government, under the Ministry of Education, he became the director general of Sharia education in the
southwestern region. He has served as the Head of the Afghan Embassy in the United Arab Emirates (Qaim Bala Amal), and as the department head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kandahar province. He was a founding member and author of the Arabic magazine
Al-Samood in the early days after NATO liberated Afghanistan in 2001, and was recently was a member of the so-called Political Bureau of the Taliban that pretended to negotiate peace in Qatar. He is currently the Special Adviser to Akhundzada in Kandahar.