Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, in his Eid al-Adha sermon, delivered Saturday in Kandahar, from which only an audio recording was released, warned that disunity, disobedience and internal power struggles could bring down the Taliban’s rule.
According to the 45-minute audio posted by the Taliban’s chief spokesman, Akhundzada cautioned that the Taliban rule would face collapse if its members failed to uphold discipline and cohesion.
“If injustice arises among us, if we seek positions to build our own status, power, and prestige, and treat public funds as spoils for personal use, and you begin to distrust us and disobey us — and we begin to distrust you — then this system will collapse, and this security will turn into insecurity,” he said.
Akhundzada called for obedience to leadership and claimed that foreign efforts were underway to destabilize the Taliban’s rule.
