When Taliban forces seized control of Afghanistan in August, leaders of the
extremist group pledged to establish a new reformed Taliban government. Th


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CEP Resource Details The Taliban’s Hardline Government

 

(New York, N.Y.) – When Taliban forces seized control of Afghanistan in
August, leaders of the extremist group pledged to establish a new reformed
Taliban government. The current government, unlike the one in the 1990s,claimed
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that it would honor women’s rights within the norms of Islamic law and would
not allow Afghanistan to become a haven for terrorists. However, the Counter
Extremism Project (CEP) has determined that a significant number of the new
Taliban regime are sanctioned by the U.N. Security Council for their heinous
actions, further leading to speculation whether the Taliban will truly follow
through with a more “moderate” approach to governance.

 

CEP’s new resource, Members of the Taliban’s Interim Government
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provides in-depth profiles on 33 appointments, outlining each person’s
position, their rise to power within the Taliban network, and sanction status. 

 

Those highlighted in the resource include Supreme Leader Mawlawi Haibatullah
Akhundzada
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, Prime MinisterMullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund
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Co-Deputy Prime MinistersAbdul Ghani Baradar Abdul Ahmad Turk
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Salam Hanafi Ali Mardan Qul
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Interior MinisterSirajuddin Haqqani Jalaluddin Khwasa
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MinisterAmir Khan Motaqi
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The ruling Taliban regime is exclusively male, with many positions filled with
veterans from their hardline movement in the early nineties. Additionally, many
appointees held similar, if not the exact same, roles during the Taliban’s
first reign.

 

To read CEP’s resource Members of the Taliban’s Interim Government, please
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