Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid says he lived in Kabul right under nose of his adversaries

‘I escaped so many times from their raids and attempts to capture me that they seriously considered that ‘Zabiullah’ was a made up figure’

Taliban’s spokesman Zabiullah 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. Mr 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. "They (US and Afghan National Forces) used to think I did not exist," Mr Mujahid told The Express Tribune newspaper in an interview.