The Taliban has declared the extended interim cabinet in Kabul where they added more than two dozen members who are given the post of ministers and deputy ministers in the government. Local media reports quoted Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the interim government, that the appointments in the interim government had been made on the orders from Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada.
Among the prominent appointees includes Mohammad Abbas Akhund who has been appointed as acting minister of disaster management and Maulvi Ezatullah who has been appointed as the deputy chief of the Supreme Audit Office.
As many as 25 others have been appointed as deputy ministers, corps commanders, and heads of independent departments.
The new names in the interim cabinet of Islamic Emirate – Mullah Mohammad Abbas Akhund minister of Disaster Management; Haji Mullah Mohammad Esa Akhund, deputy minister of disaster management; Maulvi Shahabuddin Delavar, acting minister of mines and petroleum; Maulvi Qudratullah Jamal, Supreme Audit Office head; Maulvi Ezatullah, deputy chief of the Supreme Audit Office; Maulvi Mohammad Yousef Mastari, acting director of prisons; Mullah Habibullah Fazli, deputy director of prisons; Maulvi Keramatullah Akhundzadah, head of the Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission; Maulvi Ahmad Taha, deputy minister of border and tribal affairs; Maulvi Gul Zarin, head of Kochi affairs at the Ministry of Border and Tribal Affairs; Maulvi Hamdullah Zahed, procurement director; Sheikh Abdul Rahim, deputy director of procurement;; Sheikh Maulvi Abdul Hakim, deputy minister of martyr and disabled affairs; Maulvi Saeed Ahmad Shahidkhel, Mullah Faizullah Akhund, deputy minister of youth affairs at the Ministry of Information and Culture; Maulvi Saifuddin Tayeb, deputy minister of communications; Maulvi Fathullah Mansour, head of Kandahar airport; Mohammad Ismail, executive commander of the Military Court; Maulvi Esmatullah Asim, deputy head of the Red Cross; Maulvi Rahimullah Mahmoud; deputy minister of education; Maulvi Abdul Rahman Halim, deputy minister of rural rehabilitation and development; Maulvi Atiqullah Azizi, deputy minister of finance and administration at the Ministry of Information and Culture; Mullah Faizullah Akhund, deputy minister of youth affairs at the Ministry of Information and Culture; Maulvi Saifuddin Tayeb, deputy minister of communications; Maulvi Fathullah Mansour, head of Kandahar airport; Mohammad Ismail, executive commander of the Military Court; Maulvi Esmatullah Asim, deputy head of the Red Cross; Maulvi Rahimullah Mahmoud, deputy commander of the Al-Badar Corps in Kandahar; Maulvi Abdul Samad, deputy commander of Azam Corps in Helmand; Mullah Nasser Akhund, deputy minister of finance; and Maulvi Arefullah Aref, deputy minister of energy and water.
The Taliban took over Kabul from the US-backed Ashraf Ghani administration in August. Since then the country is facing an acute crisis with civil servants unpaid for months and the treasury unable to pay for imports bills. Afghanistan, a country strategically located in South Asia has been seeing instability for the last 40 years— a period that started with an invasion by the erstwhile Soviet Union in the late 1970s and ended with the withdrawal of the United States-led NATO troops on August 31.