The spiritual leader of the Taliban, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, will be the supreme authority of Afghanistan, “the leader of the new government” to be announced soon. This was reported by Anamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban cultural commission, quoted by the broadcaster Tolo News. “The negotiations on the new government are almost over,” said the exponent of the Koranic students, “there must be no doubt that the Commander of the faithful (Akhundzada) will be the leader.”
According to sources in the New York Times, the 60-year-old spiritual leader of the Koranic students Akhundzada could take the title of Supreme Guide, modeled on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran: under him the figure of prime minister or president. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Taliban, is expected to be appointed “in charge of the daily activities of the government”. According to some analysts, the name of the new Afghanistan should not be either the Republic or the Emirate but something similar to “Islamic government”.
Biden: “A 20-year war ended, now let’s look to the future”
Meanwhile, US President Biden has returned to talk about Afghanistan. «We close 20 years of war and conflict, pain and sacrifice. Now is the time to look to the future, not to the past, to a safer future ». he wrote in a Facebook post in the aftermath of the withdrawal of the last American soldier from Afghanistan. In the post Biden, in support of the reiterated need to “end the war in Afghanistan”, he highlighted the “shocking and astonishing statistic that should stop those who think that war can be low-grade, low-risk or low-cost: 18 veterans, on average, they die from suicide every day in America – not somewhere far away, but right here in America. ‘