Kabul: Mohammad Hasan Akhund to head the interim government in Afghanistan. Akhund will have Abdul Ghani Baradar as the first deputy leader and Mawlavi Hannafi to be second deputy leader. 

The list of cabinet members announced by chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid was dominated by members of the group’s old guard.

Abdul Ghani Baradar fought side-by-side with Mullah Omar against Soviet forces in the 1970s-80s. Baradar is one of the co-founders of the Taliban movement. He was arrested in Pakistan in 2010 but was released in 2018 and relocated to Qatar. He was appointed the Taliban’s political office.

Mullah Yaquoub to be the acting minister of defence. He is the son of the Taliban’s founder, Mullah Omar. He heads the Taliban’s military commission, which comprises commanders charged with executing the insurgency’s strategic operations in the war.

Serajuddin Haqqani to be the acting minister of interior in the new Taliban Govt in Afghanistan. The son of the anti-Soviet jihad commander Jalaluddin Haqqani. Sirajuddin is both the deputy leader of the Taliban movement and also heading the Haqqani network.

As the interim government is formed Taliban supreme leader told the new government to uphold sharia law.

the new head of the Taliban government, Mullah Hassan Akhund, is on a UN terror list. The new Interior Minister, Siraj Haqqani has a 5 million dollar information bounty by the US government.