Case file · Sacred site
Mullah Omar wears the Cloak of the Prophet
In April 1996 Taliban leader Mullah Omar took the relic cloak of Muhammad from its Kandahar shrine and displayed it on a rooftop, being acclaimed Commander of the Faithful.
1996 CE · 31.62, 65.71 · status: official
The account
The cloak was brought to Kandahar by Ahmad Shah Durrani in the 18th century and is rarely shown; it had last been brought out during a cholera epidemic decades earlier.