Who are the Taliban’s new government leaders?
They are largely loyalists from group’s first years of rule in the 1990s
The Taliban formally declared a caretaker government on Tuesday, appointing acting Cabinet ministers who were largely loyalists from the group’s first years of rule in the 1990s.
The list of ministers was the clearest indication yet that the group sees power as something to be shared exclusively among the victors, rather than fulfilling their promise of an inclusive government that factored in the reality of a changed Afghanistan where women and ethnic minorities were represented in decisionmaking.
Though many of the new government’s senior figures have been in similar roles within the Taliban for years, relatively little is known about them. Here are details about some of them, based on New York Times reporting.