KABUL -

The Taliban has appointed Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund as the "acting" prime minister in the new Afghan government, and they have chosen the head of the Political Bureau and Deputy Political Affairs, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi, a member of the Afghan negotiations, as deputy prime ministers.

The movement's spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, did not clarify what role the movement's leader Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzadeh would play in the government. He has not appeared and spoken in public since the collapse of Ashraf Ghani's government and the Taliban's takeover of Kabul last month.

Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund, Acting Prime Minister (French)

Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund

Mullah Muhammad Hassan, 65, was appointed as the acting prime minister. He belongs to the Babur tribe. He was born in the Shaoli Kot district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. He was among the 6 personalities who founded the Taliban movement in the 1990s led by Mullah Muhammad Omar.

Mullah Hassan was Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Rabbani in the first Taliban government from 1996 to 2001. For 20 years, he headed the Leadership Council after the fall of the government in 2001.

A source in the Taliban movement told Al-Jazeera Net, "It was the leader of the movement, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, who personally suggested the name of Mullah Muhammad Hassan to head the government, for many reasons, the most important of which is his proximity to the movement's founder, Mullah Muhammad Omar, and his role in forming the Taliban movement."

Mullah Abdul Ghani Barader, Acting Deputy Prime Minister (AFP)

Mullah Abdul Ghani Barader

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, 53, is a senior Taliban leader and was appointed deputy prime minister of the new government.

He is from De Raut District, Uruzgan Province, southern Afghanistan, and belongs to the famous Bubble Zai tribe in the southern states.

In the eighties of the last century, Mullah Baradar fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the Penjway District of Kandahar Province. The deputy founder of the Taliban movement, Mullah Muhammad Omar, was in a group of mujahideen against the Soviet-backed communist government at the time.

Abdul Ghani was nicknamed "Barader", meaning "the brother" because of his strong relationship with the founder of the Taliban movement, Mullah Muhammad Omar, and together they ran a religious school in the district of Maiwand in Kandahar province, and they founded, among 4 people, the Taliban movement from this school in 1994.

Mullah Baradar (1996-2001) held several positions in the Taliban movement, the most important of which was the governor of Nimroz and Herat, and a military official in western Afghanistan.

According to a US State Department document, Prader took the position of Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army and Commander of the Central Army Corps in the capital, Kabul.

Despite his military activities, it was reported that Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was behind many attempts to start peace talks, specifically in 2004 and 2009, and a source close to the Afghan negotiations told Al Jazeera Net, "The arrest of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in February 2010 in the Pakistani city of Karachi, It was a severe blow to the operation that he started with the approval of Mullah Muhammad Omar with former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who belongs to the same tribe, when Pakistani and American intelligence knew that Mullah Baradar was outside the flock, so he was arrested in the city of Karachi, and thus the operation stopped for 10 years.

And former Afghan President Hamid Karzai tried with several Pakistani governments to release Baradar in order to advance the negotiation process, but the Pakistanis consistently refused the Afghan government's request.

He was released at the request of the US envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, to play a role in the peace talks due to his authority, reputation and ability to negotiate.

After his release, the leader of the Taliban movement, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzadeh, appointed him deputy for political affairs and head of the political office in Doha.

Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, Deputy Prime Minister of the new government of Afghanistan (European)

Mawlawi Abdel Salam Hanafi

Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, one of the senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, was appointed by the movement as acting deputy prime minister, and was a key member of the negotiating team in the Taliban's political office in Doha, and deputy minister of education in the first government of the Taliban movement in the 1990s.

Hanafi is an ethnic Uzbek from Jowzjan province in northern Afghanistan, and he studied in religious schools in the Pakistani city of Karachi.

According to a source for Al-Jazeera Net, "Abdul Salam Hanafi studied for some time at Kabul University and did not complete the study," and while working in the Political Bureau, he was responsible for the Chinese file.

Mullah Muhammad Yaqoub Mujahid

Mullah Muhammad Yaqoub Mujahid (31 years), son of Mullah Muhammad Omar, and head of the military committee that enjoys great influence in the Taliban, where it decides the strategic directions of the war against the Afghan government.

His association with his father, whom the movement's fighters revered as the leader of their movement, constitutes a unifying factor for a vast and highly diverse movement. Mullah Yaqoub was a disciple of Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the movement's leader.

Some observers believe that his appointment as chairman of this committee in 2020, was just a symbolic measure, as he was already supervising the conduct of military operations in 22 Afghan provinces.

Mullah Muhammad Yaqoub assumed the position of Acting Minister of Defense in the new government, and Qari Fasih, a military commander who comes from the Tajik ethnicity, will be with him as the head of the army.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, Acting Minister of Interior (social networking sites)

Sirajuddin Haqqani

Sirajuddin Haqqani, 48, the son of Sheikh Jalaluddin Haqqani, was born in Paktia Province and belongs to the famous Zardan tribe in southeastern Afghanistan.

The Taliban appointed him as Acting Minister of Interior, Mawlawi Noor Jalal as Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior, and Mullah Abdul Haq Akhund as Assistant in Anti-Narcotics Affairs.

Haqqani, a member of the leadership council of the Taliban movement, was a deputy to the leader of the Taliban movement, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada.

He was also accused of assassinating some senior Afghan officials and holding Westerners hostage before their release, in exchange for ransom or in exchange for prisoners such as the American soldier Bo Bergdahl, who was released in 2014, in exchange for 5 Afghan detainees from Guantanamo Bay.

Amir Khan Muttaki, acting foreign minister in the new Taliban government (French)

Amir Khan Muttaki

Amir Khan Muttaki, 51, was born in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province. He is from Paktia province in southern Afghanistan, and his family moved to Helmand province.

He was appointed acting foreign minister in the new Taliban government.

Mottaki studied religious sciences in his hometown and in some Pakistani schools.

In the first Taliban government, he assumed the ministries of culture, information and education, and after the fall of the movement's government, he served as head of the Advocacy and Guidance Committee, and played an important role in the movement's propaganda and media work.

He had participated in a number of rounds of negotiations between the United States and the Taliban movement in Doha, and later was called to the Pakistani city of Quetta to work in the office of the Taliban leader.

He will work with him in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sher Muhammad Stanekzai, as an undersecretary of the ministry. He belongs to the Stanekzai tribe in Logar state, south of the capital, Kabul. He studied in India at the Military College, and was an undersecretary in the first government of the Taliban until 2001.

Stanekzai was a member of the Political Bureau and the Taliban's negotiating delegation in Doha, and he is the only one among the new officials in the government who is fluent in English. He represented the Taliban at international conferences in Iran, China and Russia.

Mullah Noorullah Nouri, Acting Minister of Tribes and Borders (Getty Images)

Mullah Noor Allah Nouri

Mullah Noorullah Nouri, 53, was appointed as the Acting Minister of Tribes and Borders. He belongs to the province of Zabul in southern Afghanistan. He served as the governor of the provinces of Laghman and Balkh in the first Taliban government, then the movement's leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, appointed him as a military official for the northern states.

After the fall of the Taliban government in 2001, he surrendered to the leader of the Uzbek militias, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who handed him over to the American forces on January 11, 2002, and was transferred to Guantanamo Bay, where he remained in detention for 13 years, then was released through Qatari mediation in the exchange of an American soldier .

Mullah Abdul Haq Watheeq

Mullah Abdul Haq Wathiq, 50, belongs to the Khogyani district of Ghazni province in central Afghanistan, and was appointed by the Taliban in its new government as acting chief of Afghan intelligence.

Mullah Watheq studied religious sciences in Pakistani schools. He was the deputy chief of intelligence in the first Taliban government. The US forces arrested him in the headquarters district of Ghazni state. He was transferred to the Guantanamo prison and remained there for 12 years. He was released in a prisoner exchange deal between the Taliban and the United States.

In addition to Mullah Watheq, Mullah Taj Mir Jawad was appointed as his first deputy, and Mullah Rahmatullah Najib as deputy administrative affairs officer for the Intelligence.

Taj Mir was chief of intelligence in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan in the first government of the Taliban movement.

Mullah Khairallah Khairkhwa, Acting Minister of Culture and Information (Reuters)

Mullah Khair Allah Khairkha

Mullah Khairallah Khairkhwa, 53, belongs to Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, and the movement appointed him as acting minister of culture and information.

Khairkhwa served in the first Taliban government as interior minister and military official, then the movement's leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, appointed him as governor of Herat province in 2001.

The Pakistani intelligence arrested him in 2002 near the Afghan-Pakistan border and then handed him over to the United States. He remained in Guantanamo Bay for nearly 12 years, and was released in a prisoner exchange deal between the United States and the Taliban.