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“Afghanistan is not a democracy…I will follow Islamic law”

The Taliban will rule Afghanistan in a collective leadership system and plan to create a state according to Islamic law, not a democracy.

Reuters reported on the 18th (local time) in an interview with Wahidullah Hashimi, who had access to the Taliban’s decision-making process.
The supreme leader of the Taliban is Haibatula Akhunzada. yunhap newsThe composition of the government will be ‘Haibatullah Akhunzada’, the supreme leader of the Taliban, who will serve as the chairman of the collective leadership system, and his representative will serve as the president.

The delegation consists of three delegates: Maulabi Yakub, son of Mullah Omar, Shirazuddin Haqqani, leader of the powerful warlord Haqqani Network, and Adul Ghani Baradar, a political leader and co-founder of the Taliban.

Hashimi said the Taliban had not made a decision on how to rule Afghanistan, but said it was not a democracy.

“There will be no democratic system at all because there is no foundation in our country,” he said. “There is nothing to discuss about the stagnation system to be applied in Afghanistan. Sharia (Islamic law) is everything.”
The Taliban with captured US-made M16 rifles.  yunhap newsThe Taliban with captured US-made M16 rifles. yunhap news

Hashimi will attend a meeting of Taliban leaders at the end of this week to discuss governance issues.

He also explained that he was contacting soldiers and fighter pilots who fought for the Afghan government and asking them to join them. This is because the Taliban have seized helicopters and fighter jets from evacuating foreign troops, but no one can control them. The Taliban plan to create a new military force, including those who have joined.

He expects to get back the hundreds of soldiers who fled to Uzbekistan last week, as well as the 22 fighters and 24 helicopters they operated.