Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar will lead a new Afghan government set to be announced shortly, sources in the group have told Reuters news agency, as it battled rebel fighters in the Panjshir Valley and strived to ward off economic collapse.
Baradar, who heads the Taliban’s political office, will be joined by Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of late Taliban co-founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, and Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, in senior positions in the government, three sources said on Friday.
“All the top leaders have arrived in Kabul, where preparations are in final stages to announce the new government,” one Taliban official told Reuters, on condition of anonymity.
Haibatullah Akhunzada, the Taliban’s supreme religious leader, will focus on religious matters and governance within the framework of Islam, another Taliban source said.
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