Afghanistan can be regulated by the Ruler Council now after the Taliban has taken over, while the highest leader of the Islamic militant movement, Haibatullah Akhundzada, is likely to remain in the overall cost, the senior member of the group told Reuters.
The Taliban will also reach out former pilots and soldiers from the Afghan Armed Forces to join their ranks, Waheedullah Hashimi, who has access to group decision making, added in an interview.
How successful that recruitment must still be seen.
Thousands of soldiers have been killed by Taliban guerrillas for the past 20 years, and recently the group targets a trained Afghan pilot because of their important role.
The power structure described by Hashimi will bear the resemblance to how Afghanistan is run when the last time the Taliban came to power from 1996 to 2001.
Then, the highest leader Mullah Omar remained in the shadows in the country for the council.
Akhundzada is likely to play a role on the head of the council, which will be similar to the country’s president, added Hashimi.
“Maybe his deputy (Akhundzada) will play the role of ‘President’,” Hashimi said, speaking English.
Taliban’s highest leader has three deputies: Mawdavi Yaqoob, Mullah Omar’s son, Sirajuddin Haqqani, strong Haqqani network leader, and Abdul Ghani Baradar, who heads the Taliban political office in Doha and is one of the group founder members.
Many problems regarding how the Taliban will run Afghanistan unfinished, Hashimi explained, but Afghanistan would not become democracy.
“There will be no democratic system at all because it does not have a base in our country,” he said.
“We will not discuss the type of political system what we should apply in Afghanistan because it is clear.
It is a sharia law and only that.” Hashimi said he would join the Taliban leadership meeting that would discuss the governance this weekend.
In recruiting soldiers and pilots, Hashimi said the Taliban planned to form a new national force that would include its own members and government soldiers.
“Most of them have training in Turkey and Germany and England.
So we will talk to them to return to their position,” he said.
Reuters.