'Lived in Kabul right under their nose': Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid on US, Afghan forces considering him a 'ghost-like' figure

"I escaped so many times from their raids and attempts to capture me that they seriously considered that 'Zabihullah' was a made up figure, not a real man who exists," Zabihullah Mujahid said.

Islamabad: Taliban's spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, who appeared before the media for the first time in a decade at a press conference after the insurgent group seized Kabul last month, said that he lived in the Afghan capital right under the nose of his adversaries who considered him a 'ghost-like' figure during the war. Mujahid, who operated in the shadows for years, also admitted that he studied at the Haqqania seminary in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan, which has also been dubbed the Taliban University or the 'University of Jihad' internationally. ALSO READ | Taliban allow women in universities but with gender segregated classrooms