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Taliban announces new Afghanistan government, giving top roles to hardliners and no women | South China Morning Post

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The Taliban has taken another step in its transition from militant force to governing power in Afghanistan, naming Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund as acting prime minister of the country’s caretaker government. At a press conference in Kabul on September 7, 2021, a Taliban spokesman also announced that the group’s co-…

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