Asif Mohseni

Ayatollah Muhammad Asif Mohseni (Sheik Mohseni) (born 1936) is widely considered to be the most powerful Twelver shiite cleric in Afghanistan. He is the founder of the Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (Harakat-I Islami-yi Afghanistan). With strong links to Iran, he is a Qizilbash born in the Pashtun region of Kandahar to an ethnic Tajik Shia family.