Mawlawi Fathullah Mansoor ascended to his current role as Deputy Minister for Operations at the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation in mid-January 2024. Prior to this appointment, he commanded the air brigade within the 205 Al-Badr Military Corps in Kandahar province. Preceding this, he held the position of General Director of Kandahar Military Airport since November 2021. Notably, he is the eldest son of the late Taliban emir, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, whose mark on the intricate landscape of present-day intra-Taliban politics persists despite his killing in May 2016 in a U.S. drone strike on the Iran-Pakistani border while returning from a trip to Iran.
