Why can there be such a thing as a Taliban spokesman, and why is he not shot in the head the very second he claims to be one?
The spokesman is in Pakistan. That should answer your question.
“Why can there be such a thing as a Taliban spokesman, and why is he not shot in the head the very second he claims to be one?”
For the same reasons the Somali pirates have a spokesman.
We live in a very F*kd up world.
A thousand years from now, someone will ask the very same question as you.