Pictured: Secretive Taliban leader whose face has never been seen photographed for the first time

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The Taliban minister said he was showing his face to new Afghan police recruits 'for your satisfaction and for building your trust'.

Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, right, pictured clearly for the first time - WAKIL KOHSAR /AFP

"For your satisfaction and for building your trust... I am appearing in the media in a public meeting with you," he said in a speech at the parade., Haqqani was the most senior of three deputies to leader Hibatullah Akhundzada. At the police parade Saturday, Haqqani was dressed like many of the senior Taliban officials - very heavily bearded and wearing a black turban and white shawl.Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani speaks to new Afghan police recruits during a graduation ceremony at the police academy in Kabul on March 5 - AFPeven more confident of their hold on the country since seizing power on August 15, two weeks before the last US-led foreign forces left.

The latter was blamed for the deadly 2008 attack on Kabul's Serena Hotel that killed six people, as well as at least one assassination attempt against former Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

 

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