Afghanistan: Taliban re-establishing 'the Islamic emirate of the 1990s'
It is not yet known who will take charge of the new government but it's believed that a 'coterie of clerics' and former Taliban leaders will take on the key positions.
It is not yet known who will take charge of the new government but it's believed that a 'coterie of clerics' and former Taliban leaders will take on the key positions.
Michael Semple, from the George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queens University in Belfast, says that the Taliban are "installing their own movement into power" and that the probable leader will be Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the four men who founded the Taliban in Afghanistan in 1994. He also says that younger members will include Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of the founder of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, and leaders in the military, who are currently taking over the army bases that have been abandoned by the Afghan army.
"[Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar] will put on show for international community, but fundamentally but he'll be tough to the population, loyal to comrades and a smooth but uncompromising locutor for the international community."
Photo: Taliban delegation leader Abdul Ghani Baradar at peace talks on Moscow, March 2019 Credit: Getty Images
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