The Taliban has proved detractors wrong and has achieved political stability within a year of coming to power in Kabul, Suhail Shaheen, head of the Political Office of the Taliban told The Hindu. As Afghanistan marks one year of Taliban rule in the coming August, the outfit has centralised political power in the Kandahar faction while decentralising its military power among a wide range of veteran and young commanders.
On July 1, the Taliban’s Amir ul Momineen Hibatullah Akhundzada, visited Kabul for the first time since the takeover of the capital. Mr. Akhundzada has maintained the reclusive style of the Taliban’s first supreme leader Amir ul Momineen Mullah Omar, who was rarely seen, partly because of security reasons. While the supreme leader is expected to remain unseen, the visible part of the Taliban administration begins with the next leader — “Prime Minister” Mullah Hasan Akhund and his deputies, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Maulavi Abdul Kabir, and Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi.
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