CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Taliban Government: Sirajuddin Haqqani, named as the interior minister, is on the FBI’s most wanted list for terrorism.

Detailed explanation-2: -On September 7, 2021 the Taliban officials who exercise de facto control of most of Afghanistan announced Islamic scholar Hasan Akhund as acting prime minister in a new interim government of the recently re-established Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

Detailed explanation-3: -Under the command of Mullah Mohammad Omar, an Afghan ethnic Pashtun who had served as a junior mujahadeen commander during the anti-Soviet jihad, the Taliban swept through southern Afghanistan in 1994.

Detailed explanation-4: -The current supreme leader is Hibatullah Akhundzada, who assumed office in exile on 25 May 2016, upon being chosen by the Leadership Council, and came to power on 15 August 2021 with the Taliban’s victory over Western-backed forces in the 2001–2021 war.

Detailed explanation-5: -At a press conference in Dublin, the U.S. government announced a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrests of the heads of the Kinahan cartel - Christy and his sons Daniel and Christy Jr.