Mullah Mohammad Rabbani Akhund, was one of the main leaders of the Taliban movement, he was second in power only to which supreme leader?
Mohammed Omar Mullah Mohammed Omar (Pashto: ملا محمد عمر‎ , "Mullā Muḥammad ‘Umar"; c. 1960 – 23 April 2013), widely known as Mullah Omar, was the supreme commander and spiritual leader of the Taliban. Under the title "Head of the Supreme Council," He was Afghanistan's head of state from 1996 to late 2001. Omar died in 2013 of natural causes and was succeeded by Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
Eastern Shura During the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan, when the United States struck at Afghanistan's Taliban regime, regional and tribal leaders rose up to oust the Taliban in Khowst Province and Nangarhar Province formed an alliance known as the Eastern Shura. Mary Anne Weaver, writing in "The New York Times" on the fourth anniversary of al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001, described the formation of the Eastern Shura as the result of surrender negotiations on November 13, 2001, between Younus Khalis and Osama bin Laden.