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Who’s key figures in the new Taliban government

Who's key figures in the new Taliban government
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Taliban on Tuesday announced a military position.
Some facts about key people: Mohammad Hasan Akhund, Acting Prime Minister Akhund is the old head of the Taliban decision-making the Taliban Rehbari Shura, or the leadership council.
He was the first time Minister of Foreign Affairs and then Deputy PM during the last rule of the Taliban from 1996-2001.
He got a lot of his prestige from his closeness to the first leader of a closed movement, Mullah Mohammad Omar.
He came from Kandahar, where the Taliban was born.
The UN sanctions report illustrates it as an “Advisor to Association and Politics” for Omar.
He was placed on the UN Security Council sanctions list connected with the “Action and Activities” of Taliban.
Akhund is highly respected in movement, especially by the highest leader of Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban source said.
Some observers see Akhund, believed to be in the mid 60s and may be older, as more political than religious figures, with control of the leadership council also gave him a voice in military affairs.
Abdul Ghani Baradar, the first deputy acting PM Baradar was once a close friend of Mullah Omar, who gave him Nom de Guerre, “Baradar” or “brother”.
He served as Deputy Defense Minister when the last Taliban ruled Afghanistan.
After the fall of the Taliban government, Baradar served as a senior military commander who was responsible for the attack on coalition forces, said the UN sanction notices.
He was arrested and imprisoned in Pakistan in 2010.
After his release in 2018, he led the Taliban political office in Doha, became one of the main figures in peace talks with the US.
Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy acting second PMHE was a deputy minister of education in the previous Taliban regime, when they had effectively banned school girls.
He was also on the UN blacklist, which was appointed to allow him to take part in peace with the US.
After Islamists were overthrown in 2001, he was placed in response from the North Jawzjan Province of Talibancontrolled, which borders Uzbekistan.
The UN Security Council has accused the potential for involvement in drug trafficking.
Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister from Paktia, Muttaqi called himself a Helmand resident.
He served as Minister of Culture and Information during the previous Taliban government, as well as the Minister of Education.
Muttaqi was then sent to Qatar and was appointed as a member of the peace commission and the negotiation team held talks with the US.
Muttaqi is the chairman of the invitation and guidance commission, which during the rebellion has led efforts to get government officials and other key figures to defect.
In a statement and speech during the battle raged to control the country, he projected a moderate voice, calling troops hiding in the provincial capital to talk to the group to avoid battle in urban areas.
He played the same role as Panjshir Province, called for peaceful solutions.
Mullah Yaqoob, acting Defense Minister for the Founder of Taliban Mullah Omar, Yaqoob initially tried to replace his father in 2015.
He stormed out of the board meeting which pointed to his father’s successor, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, but was finally reconciled.
Still in the early 30s and without a long combat experience, he ordered loyalty to the movement section in Kandahar because of his father’s name prestige.
He was named the head of the overall Taliban military commission last year, overseeing all military operations in Afghanistan and was one of three representatives, along with Baradar and Sirajuddin Haqqani.
Although regarded as a relatively moderate by Western analysts, the Taliban Commander said he was among the leaders who pressed the military campaign against Afghan cities.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, Acting Minister of Home Affairs Network Haqqani, Sirajuddin Haqqani succeeded as his leader after his father’s death, Jalaluddin Haqqani, in 2018.
Initially supported by the US as one of the most effective anti-Soviet militias in the 1980s, semi-autonomous groups blamed for several The most deadly attack on coalition forces.
This is famous for the use of suicide bombers.
The network was also accused of killing officials on Afghanistan and held Westerners who were kidnapped for ransom – including US Bergdahl’s soldiers, which were released in 2014.
Network, whose status in the structure of the Taliban was debated, has been named a foreign terrorist organization by us.
The UN sanction committee also said the group, based in the lawless border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has close involvement in the production and trade of drugs.

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