A Taliban press conference on Tuesday announced the names of several acting cabinet ministers of a new caretaker government led by Mohammad Hasan Akhund.
The acting PM is on the UN terror list while the new acting Minister of Interior, Sirajuddin Haqqani, is on the US most wanted list, with a juicy $5 million bounty on his head.
Here are the key positions:
1. Muhammad Hassan Akhund – Prime Minister
2. Abdul Ghani Baradar (Taliban co-founder) – Deputy to PM
3. Sirajuddin Haqqani – Minister of Interior
4. Alhaj Mullah Fazel Akhund – Chief of Army staff
5. Muhammad Yaqoub Mujahid – Defense Minister
The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan after the US ended its two-decade occupation of the country.
