Akhund headed the Taliban government in Kabul during the last years of its rule in the late 1990s and he was the unanimous choice according to reports.
The inmates are believed to have moved through the space to reach the prison's outer wall, then dug a tunnel that emerged in the middle of a dirt road just outside.
Shortly after Williams' death, the rapper chose to use a New York Post article about the actor's death to promote his popular television show Raising Kanan.