Afghanistan will not be a democracy under the Taliban rule and the country will be governed by the Sharia, or Islamic law, one of the seni...
Afghanistan will not be a democracy under the Taliban rule and the country will be governed by the Sharia, or Islamic law, one of the senior leaders of the militant group, Waheedullah Hashimi, told Reuters on Wednesday.
In an interview to the news agency, Hashimi said that Afghanistan may be governed by a ruling council headed by Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada.
“We will have ministers...all the ministers would be appointed by this council,” Hashimi said. “...There would be no democratic system at all because it does not have any base in our country.”
Senior Taliban commander Waheedullah Hashimi told Reuters that Afghanistan may be governed by a ruling council, while the Islamist militant movement’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, would likely remain in overall charge https://t.co/Nl15KwGyv8 pic.twitter.com/sSDOlD1H1l
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Hashimi’s comments came even as the Taliban has not made any official announcement on the structure of their government in Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, members of the group met former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul amid efforts to establish a government. The previous government’s main peace envoy Abdullah Abdullah was also present in the meeting, according to Al Jazeera. However, no details emerged from the talks.
Hashimi, in the interview, said that he would be joining a meeting of the...
