With Pak Help, “Lightweight Leader” May Be Picked As Afghan PM: Sources

New Delhi:

A comparatively lesser recognized Taliban chief, Mullah Hassan Akhund, seen as a “light-weight” and who’s on a UN terror listing, may very well be the unlikely selection as the subsequent Prime Minister of Afghanistan as a compromise candidate between rival factions of the Taliban.

Disagreements between the extremist group’s a number of factions have to date stymied authorities formation within the war-torn nation. Kabul fell to Taliban three weeks in the past.

The primary contenders for energy, whose struggles have delayed the announcement of a brand new regime, embody the Doha unit of the Taliban headed by Mullah Baradar, the Haqqani Community,  a semi-independent terror outfit that operates in japanese Afghanistan, and the Kandahar faction of the Taliban.

Below the brand new formulation, Mullah Baradar and Mullah Omar’s son Mullah Yakub are prone to function Mullah Akhund’s deputies. Siraj Haqqani, of the Haqqani Community, and likewise on international terror lists, could also be picked to move the highly effective inside ministry — equal to India’s residence ministry — sources stated.

Taliban’s prime cleric, the shadowy chief Hibatullah Akhundzada, will probably be the “Supreme Chief”.

Mullah Hassan Akhund, the PM-in-waiting heads Taliban’s management council, the “Rehbari Shura” and has served as a minister in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan earlier than the conflict with the US began in 2001.

There may be hypothesis that the consensus was arrived at throughout Pakistan army intelligence ISI chief’s keep in Kabul final week. Faiz Hameed is now again in Islamabad.

The possible define of the brand new regime has thrown up questions on Taliban’s dedication to its personal promise of an inclusive authorities.

There seems no function for former leaders of the nation – together with former President Hamid Karzai and former overseas minister Abdullah Abdullah –  regardless of their holding talks with the Taliban after it  captured Kabul.