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The Taliban on Sunday revealed the names of new provincial governors, deputy governors and military commanders. As reported by The Express Tribune, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that Qari Bariyal has been appointed governor of Kabul, Mufti Mohammad Idris will serve as his deputy and Wali Jan Hamza will be the military commander of the Afghan capital. .
The Taliban on Tuesday appointed governors and military commanders to key positions at the provincial level on the instructions of the group’s supreme leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada.
The Akhunzada-led interim Afghanistan government appointed Abdul Ghani Governor of Badakhshan Province, Muhammad Ali Governor of Paktia Province, Nisar Ahmed Governor of Kunduz Province, while Qari Bakhtiyar and Haji Mali Khan were appointed governors of Baghlan and Logar Provinces respectively. has gone. Express Tribune.
Similarly, Abdullah Mukhtar will serve as governor of Paktika province, Abdullah Border of Bamiyan, Haji Dawat of Uruzgan, Rouhani Sahib of Farah, Abdul Rahman Sar-e-Pol and Shoaib of Jowjan. Ishaq Akhunzada has been appointed as the governor of Ghazni province.
The development comes days after the Taliban’s supreme leader warned against the threat of turncoats and infiltrators.
Reflecting the gravity of the threat, reclusive Haibatullah Akhundzada issued a rare written public statement urging Taliban commanders to purge their ranks, The Express Tribune reports.
In it he said: “All those elders in their groups should look within their ranks and see if there is any unknown entity acting against the will of the government, which must be eliminated as soon as possible”.
In a statement tweeted by multiple Taliban accounts, he warned, “Whatever goes wrong, the elderly will be responsible for the consequences of the actions in this world and in the afterlife.”
(with inputs from ANI)
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