3. Biodata:
Sheikh Maulvi Akhtar Zafarani is the deputy head of Akhundzada’s 24-member council in Kandahar. Zafarani is about 50 years old and is a native of Kandahar province. During the first Taliban regime, they had a council called Ittefaq in the jihadi madrassa in Kandahar province. Then Shaykh al-Hadith Maulvi Zafarani became the deputy Governor to Maulvi Mohammad Hassan in Kandahar in the 1990s. Initially, after the liberation of Afghanistan in 2001, Zafarani surrendered to the government and became a teacher at a religious school in Kandahar province. Later, Zafarani was appointed as the head of Kandahar Council of Religious Scholars and was the chairman of the Ulema Council until August 15. After the fall of the elected government, Zafarani became the deputy on Akhundzada’s southwestern council.