Following the forcible takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, the nation will now be dominated by a council headed by Islamist chief Haibatullah Akhundzada, reported Reuters. The improvement was confirmed by senior Taliban commander Waheedullah Hashimi.
According to him, the present Taliban rule in Afghanistan can be just like that of its earlier run between 1996 to 2001. Back then, the Islamist outfit ran the nation by means of its council whereas the supreme chief Mullah Omar remained on the sidelines. Waheedullah Hashimi stated that the Head of the Council will function because the President of the nation. He added that the place held by ‘supreme leader’ Haibatullah Akhundzada can be above the place of the Council Head. “Maybe his (Akhundzada’s) deputy will play the role of ‘president’,” Hashimi emphasised.
Although Hashimi conceded that there have been points relating to how the nation can be run, he clarified that Afghanistan wouldn’t stay a democracy. “There will be no democratic system at all because it does not have any base in our country. We will not discuss what type of political system should we apply in Afghanistan because it is clear. It is sharia law and that is it,” he said. He knowledgeable {that a} assembly can be held quickly by the highest leaders of the Taliban to debate and resolve the course of future governance.
Taliban to recruit pilots, troopers of Afghan armed forces
Taliban may even attempt to persuade pilots and troopers within the Afghan armed forces to affix them. This is although the extremist group has killed 1000s of US-trained Afghan troopers prior to now 20 years. Hashimi had identified that the novel Islamist outfit has plans to arrange a nationwide power, which is able to embrace current members of the Taliban and people who defect from the Afghan military.
“Most of them have got training in Turkey and Germany and England. So we will talk to them to get back to their positions…Of course, we will have some changes, to have some reforms in the army, but still, we need them and will call them to join us. We have contact with many pilots. And we have asked them to come and join, join their brothers, their government…We called many of them and are in search of (others’) numbers to call them and invite them to their jobs,” Hashimi added.
Taliban Supreme chief has 3 deputies, needs Uzbekistan to return choppers and planes of Afghan military
At this level, the Taliban has no pilots to fly the helicopters and fighter plane that they seized from varied airfields. According to Hashimi, he was anticipating Uzbekistan to return 24 helicopters and 22 navy plane that landed in Uzbekistan because the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. It should be talked about that the present supreme chief Haibatullah Akhundzada has three deputies, particularly, Mawlavi Yaqoob, Sirajuddin Haqqani, and Abdul Ghani Baradar. Yaqoob is the son of Mullah Omar whereas Haqqani is the supremo of the Haqqani community. Baradar is of the Taliban’s founders and runs the Islamist outfit’s workplace in Doha.
Afghans march by means of Kabul with nationwide flag to protest in opposition to Taliban
On the event of Afghanistan’s Independence Day on August 19, scores of residents of the war-torn state took to the streets of the capital metropolis, Kabul. They marched throughout the town carrying a whole lot of meter-long Afghanistan flags, to protest in opposition to the Taliban’s takeover of the war-ravaged nation. Videos of the protest at the moment are being broadly shared on social media platforms.
According to studies, quickly after the Islamist outfit formally declared Afghanistan as an ‘Islamic Emirate’ on the nation’s 102nd Independence Day from British management in 1919, Afghan nationals, comprising of males, girls, and youngsters hit the streets of Kabul. Amidst loud cheers of ‘Long Live Afghanistan’ and ‘Our flag, our identity’, these protestors have been marching by means of the town with the nationwide flag.
Besides Kabul, the Afghans confirmed their dissent in opposition to the now ruling Talibanis by hoisting their nationwide flag in varied different locations within the nation. In movies of Abdul Haq Square flooding the social media area, two males have been seen climbing twin flagpoles to unfurl the nationwide flag. People have been additionally seen cheering as they wave tiny, plastic replicas of the Afghan flag.