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Mohammad Hasan Akhund
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Prime Minister of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Key facts
- Supreme leader
- Hibatullah Akhundzada
- Deputy
- Abdul Ghani Baradar Abdul Salam Hanafi Abdul Kabir (acting)
- Preceded by
- Office re-established ; Abdul Kabir (acting, 2001)
- Prime minister
- Mohammad Rabbani , Abdul Kabir (acting)
- Succeeded by
- Abdul Ghani Baradar (2021) Abdul Salam Hanafi (2021)
- Born
- Muhammad Hasan Akhund Kakar , c. 1945 – c. 1958 (age 67–81), Pashmul, Panjwayi District (now in Zhari District ), Kandahar Province , Kingdom of Afghanistan
- Occupation
- Politician, Taliban member
- Political affiliation
- Taliban
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Place of birth
- Panjwayi District
- Occupation
- cleric
- Position held
- Prime Minister of Afghanistan
- Political party
- Taliban
- Languages spoken
- Pashto
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Image
- Hasan Akhund.png
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- honorific prefix
- mullah
- name in native language
- ملا محمد حسن اخوند
- date of birth
- 2000-00-00
- Commons category
- Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund
- P10632
- Mohammad Hasan Akhund
- described at URL
- www.counterextremism.com/extremists/mohammad-hassan-akhund
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Encyclopedic overview
Muhammad Hasan Akhund Kakar (born c. 1945–1958) is an Afghan politician and cleric who has been serving as the 27th prime minister of Afghanistan since 2025, having previously served in this role on an interim basis from 2021. A member of the Taliban, he has been a member of the Leadership Council since 2002, and previously served as deputy prime minister from 1996 to 2001, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 1999.
Akhund is one of the founding members of the Taliban and has been a senior leading member of the movement. In the first Taliban government (1996–2001), he served as the deputy foreign minister.
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