Mullah Mohammad Rabbani Akhund, was one of the main leaders of the Taliban movement, he was second in power only to which supreme leader?
Mohammad Rabbani Mullah Mohammad Rabbani Akhund (1955–15 April 2001) was one of the main leaders of the Taliban movement. He was second in power only to the supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, in the Taliban hierarchy.
Qari Zain Qari Zainuddin Mehsud (died (2009--)23 2009 ), commonly known as Qari Zain, was a citizen of Pakistan, a member of the Mehsud tribe, and a leader of a Taliban faction in South Waziristan, one of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Pakistan's "Daily Times" described him as the "self-appointed successor of Taliban commander Abdullah Mehsud" although he feuded with Baitullah Mehsud over leadership of the Pakistani Taliban. In the months before his assassination, the Pakistani government unofficially supported Zainuddin as a counter to Baitullah.