Mawlawi Matiul Haq Khalis (born; 1961) (Pashto: مولوی مطیع الحق خالص) is the Afghan Taliban leader and the former President of the Afghan Red Crescent Society[1] and currently the director of the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) since July 2024.
[2][3] He was born in 1961 in Nakarkhel village of Khogyani district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan.
He is the son of a late Afghan jihad commander Mohammad Yunus Khalis.
From 1990 to 1991 he studied Hadith at Jamia Imdad-ul-Uloom Islamia Peshawar.
He is also a Hafiz-i-Quran[4] He and his brother Anwar ul Haq Mujahid led a group called the Tora Bora Military Front.