Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (R) greets Afghan Foreign Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund in Islamabad August 25. Akhund arrived on Tuesday with an 18-member delegation for a four-day official visit to Pakistan, aimed at talks on bilateral issues and the Afghan Transit Trade to the land-locked Afghanistan through Pakistan. MP/DL

8 September  2021,

UN-sanctioned Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund has been named as the head of the ‘acting government’ of Afghanistan.

देवों के देव महादेव जहाँ विज्ञान भी फेल।

He was one of the founders of the outfit and hails from its birthplace Kandahar. Akhund has headed the Taliban’s leadership council and decision-making body ‘Rehbari Shura’ for 20 years and was a minister in the Afghan Taliban government in 1996-2001.

-NAV GILL