The Taliban are probably to announce the formation of a new government in Afghanistan today. The statement of a new administration can be made after Friday afternoon prayers, Taliban reasserts informed the AFP news agency.
Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar will lead a new Afghan government, reasserts withinside the Islamist organization instructed Reuters on Friday, as its fighters battled forces loyal to the vanquished republic withinside the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul. Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of late Taliban founder Mullah Omar, and Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai will take senior positions withinside the authorities, the assets said.
Haibatullah Akhunzada, the Taliban’s supreme religious leader, will focus on religious subjects and governance withinside the framework of Islam, every other Taliban source said.
The statement comes as Afghanistan’s economy is scuffling with the ramifications of an ongoing drought and the warfare that has killed an envisioned 240,000 Afghans. After ruling the country from 1996 to 2001, through forcing the novel implementation of the Sharia Law, the militant group has promised a relatively flexible way of rule this time.