(Last Updated On: May 17, 2021)
A prayer ceremony for Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, the deputy head of the Taliban splinter group in the western part of the country, was held on Monday at Herat’s Grand Mosque.
Mullah Manan Niazi died on Saturday in a hospital in Kabul after sustaining serious injuries in a Taliban-on-Taliban skirmish on Tuesday night.
His funeral was held in the Guzara area of Herat on Sunday in the presence of dozens of supporters and gunmen.
During the ceremony, it was announced his son, Hafiz Khalid Niazi would succeed the slain leader.
“I got Niazi’s blood flowing through my veins. We have thousands of (Niazi)s among us,” Hafiz Khalid Niazi said.