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Detailed explanation-1: -Story highlights. Taliban’s Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is likely to be declared as Afghanistan’s new president.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is led by Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, who has not been seen publicly in years. (Taliban officials said in 2022 that Akhundzada had visited Kabul, but no photos or videos of such an appearance were made public. An audio recording of a speech he reportedly gave was released.)

Detailed explanation-3: -BACKGROUND. The Taliban is a Sunni Islamist nationalist and pro-Pashtun movement founded in the early 1990s that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until October 2001.