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Powers and duties. The council is the supreme governing body of the Taliban and the Government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. It functions under a consensus decision-making model, and is chaired by the supreme leader. The Leadership Council appoints the supreme leader in the event of a vacancy.
Powers and duties. The council is the supreme governing body of the Taliban and the Government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. It functions under a consensus decision-making model, and is chaired by the supreme leader. The Leadership Council appoints the supreme leader in the event of a vacancy.
The current supreme leader is Hibatullah Akhundzada, who assumed office in exile during the Taliban insurgency on 25 May 2016, upon being chosen by the Leadership Council, and came to power on 15 August 2021 with the Taliban's victory over U.S.-backed forces in the 2001–2021 war.
Under the leadership of the Taliban, the government is a theocracy and an emirate with political power concentrated in the hands of a supreme leader and his clerical advisors, collectively referred to as the Leadership. The Leadership makes all major policy decisions behind closed doors, which are then implemented by the country's civil service ...
Sep 7, 2021 · Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund is one of the four men who founded the Taliban in Afghanistan in 1994. He is a longtime head the Taliban's powerful leadership council, or Rehbari Shura. He...
Aug 17, 2021 · The leadership council – known as the Quetta shura after the city in western Pakistan where many top Taliban live – is powerful, and though there is a high degree of ideological uniformity...
Sep 10, 2021 · Credit: Afghan Islamic Press via AP. On September 7, hours after Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid unveiled the group’s new all-male interim government, Supreme Leader Mawlawi Hibatullah ...
