Taliban: Hebatullah Akhundzadeh has become the head of the Afghan government.
The Taliban announced today that the group’s leader, will head the Afghan government.
The Taliban announced on Wednesday that Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzadeh, the group’s leader, would head the Afghan government, Sputnik news agency reported.
According to Sputnik, TOLOnews quoted the Taliban as saying: “Consultations for the new government are almost over and the necessary negotiations have been held for the cabinet.” The Islamic State that we will announce soon will be an example for the nation.
Meanwhile, Abbas Stanekzai, a senior member of the Taliban delegation in Qatar, had previously told the BBC that the new Afghan government would be announced in the next two days.
He added: “This government will be inclusive and women will play a role in it, but not at the ministerial level, while their non-cooperation with the US-backed government is also a condition.”
“We are consulting to form a comprehensive government,” Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban leader, told Al Jazeera.
