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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 125%; background-color: #ededed"><div style="display:inline" class="fn org">Leadership Council</div> <br /><div style="display:inline" class="nickname" lang="ps">رهبری شُورَىٰ</div><br /><div style="display:inline" class="nickname"><i>Rahbarī Shūrā</i></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Flag of Afghanistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/125px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/188px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/250px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan">Flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Type</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="padding:0.1em 0;line-height:1.3em;"><div style="display:inline" class="category"><a href="/wiki/Unicameral" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicameral">Unicameral</a></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Term limits</div></th><td class="infobox-data">None</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>15 August 2021<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2021-08-15</span>)</span> (current form)</li> <li>4 April 1996<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1996-04-04</span>)</span> (originally)<sup id="cite_ref-Stanford_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stanford-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Afghanistan)" title="National Assembly (Afghanistan)">National Assembly</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Leadership</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Afghanistan" title="Supreme Leader of Afghanistan">Supreme Leader</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Hibatullah_Akhundzada" title="Hibatullah Akhundzada">Hibatullah Akhundzada</a> <br />since 15 August 2021<br />In exile from 25 May 2016 </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em">First<br />Deputy</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Sirajuddin_Haqqani" title="Sirajuddin Haqqani">Sirajuddin Haqqani</a> <br />since 15 August 2021<br />In exile from 25 May 2016 </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em">Second<br />Deputy</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Mullah_Yaqoob" title="Mullah Yaqoob">Mullah Yaqoob</a> <br />since 15 August 2021<br />In exile from 25 May 2016 </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em">Third<br />Deputy</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Ghani_Baradar" title="Abdul Ghani Baradar">Abdul Ghani Baradar</a> <br />since 15 August 2021<br />In exile from 24 January 2019 </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Structure</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data">Approximately 30</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Political groups</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> (all seats)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Committees</th><td class="infobox-data">Commissions</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Length of term</div></th><td class="infobox-data">No fixed term</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Authority</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Afghanistan#Constitution" title="Politics of Afghanistan">1998 <i>dastur</i></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Composition method</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Appointment by the supreme leader</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Meeting place</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data label"><a href="/wiki/Kandahar" title="Kandahar">Kandahar</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-IEA_website_31/8/21_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IEA_website_31/8/21-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also translated as the <b>Supreme Council</b><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Pashto_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Pashto language">Pashto</a>: <span lang="ps" dir="rtl">رهبری شُورَىٰ</span>, <small>romanized: </small><span title="Pashto-language romanization"><i lang="ps-Latn">Rahbarī Shūrā</i></span>,<sup id="cite_ref-VOA_29-8-2021_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VOA_29-8-2021-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also referred to as the <b>Inner Shura</b>),<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is an advisory council to the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Afghanistan" title="Supreme Leader of Afghanistan">Supreme Leader of Afghanistan</a>. The supreme leader convenes and chairs the council at his sole discretion. He has ultimate authority and may override or circumvent it at any time. It played a key role in directing the <a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">Taliban insurgency</a> from <a href="/wiki/Quetta" title="Quetta">Quetta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, which led to it being informally referred to as the <b>Quetta Shura</b> at the time. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">Taliban insurgency</a>, a consensus-based decision model was used among members of the Quetta Shura. After the 2021 return to power of the Taliban, Supreme Leader <a href="/wiki/Hibatullah_Akhundzada" title="Hibatullah Akhundzada">Hibatullah Akhundzada</a> centralized power and began to communicate mostly through his three deputies.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2023, <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Analytica" title="Oxford Analytica">Oxford Analytica</a> reported that he had not convened the Leadership Council for several months, instead consulting the local Kandahar provincial council of clerics for advice.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist 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Afghanistan">Human rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Independent_Human_Rights_Commission" title="Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission">Human Rights Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Afghanistan">LGBT rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treatment_of_women_by_the_Taliban" title="Treatment of women by the Taliban">Treatment of women by the Taliban</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:center; background:#F5FFFA;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Afghanistan" title="Government of Afghanistan">Government</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Afghanistan" title="Supreme Leader of Afghanistan">Supreme Leader</a> (<a 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mw-heading2"><h2 id="Powers_and_duties">Powers and duties</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Powers and duties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The council is the supreme governing body of the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan">Government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</a>. It functions under a <a href="/wiki/Consensus_decision-making" title="Consensus decision-making">consensus decision-making</a> model, and is <a href="/wiki/Chairman" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman">chaired</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Afghanistan" title="Supreme Leader of Afghanistan">supreme leader</a>. The Leadership Council appoints the supreme leader in the event of a vacancy. Under the first supreme leader, <a href="/wiki/Mullah_Omar" title="Mullah Omar">Mullah Omar</a>, the role of the council was purely advisory, but an agreement to rule by consensus was formed upon the contentious appointment of <a href="/wiki/Akhtar_Mansour" title="Akhtar Mansour">Akhtar Mansour</a> as the second supreme leader. However, the supreme leader may still override or circumvent the council at any time—the consensus model is merely a <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_convention_(political_custom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitutional convention (political custom)">convention</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-VOA_29-8-2021_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VOA_29-8-2021-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IEA_website_31/8/21_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IEA_website_31/8/21-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CTC_Sentinel_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CTC_Sentinel-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-VOA_8-9-2021_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VOA_8-9-2021-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_Shura_(2021-present)"><span id="Current_Shura_.282021-present.29"></span>Current Shura (2021-present)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Current Shura (2021-present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are approximately 30 members.<sup id="cite_ref-VOA_8-9-2021_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VOA_8-9-2021-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following bodies make up the Leadership Council: </p> <ul><li>Border Commission</li> <li>Commission for Agriculture, Livestock, Ushr and Zakat</li> <li>Commission for Cultural Affairs</li> <li>Commission for Financial Affairs</li> <li>Commission for Preaching and Guidance, Recruitment and Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice</li> <li>Commission for Prevention of Civilian Casualties and Complaints</li> <li>Commission for Prisoners’ Affairs</li> <li>Commission for Training, Learning and Higher Education</li> <li>Commission of Military Affairs</li> <li>Department for the Affairs of Needy, Orphans and Disabled</li> <li>Department of Power Distribution</li> <li>Economic Commission</li> <li>Guidance and Invitation Commission</li> <li>Health Commission</li> <li>Institutional Commission</li> <li>Intelligence Commission</li> <li>Leadership Office</li> <li>Mining Commission</li> <li>Political Office (formerly Commission for Political Affairs)</li></ul> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Current membership<sup id="cite_ref-VOA_29-8-2021_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VOA_29-8-2021-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CTC_Sentinel_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CTC_Sentinel-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Name</th> <th>Portfolio</th> <th>Position(s) held in interim government </th></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Hibatullah_Akhundzada" title="Hibatullah Akhundzada">Hibatullah Akhundzada</a></b> </td> <td colspan="2" align="center"><b><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Afghanistan" title="Supreme Leader of Afghanistan">Supreme Leader</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hasan_Akhund" title="Hasan Akhund">Hasan Akhund</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Afghanistan" title="Prime Minister of Afghanistan">Prime Minister</a> (2021–present)</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sirajuddin_Haqqani" title="Sirajuddin Haqqani">Sirajuddin Haqqani</a></td> <td> <ul><li>First <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Leader_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Leader of Afghanistan">Deputy Leader</a></li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Interior_Affairs_(Afghanistan)" title="Ministry of Interior Affairs (Afghanistan)">Interior Minister</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mullah_Yaqoob" title="Mullah Yaqoob">Mullah Yaqoob</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Second <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Leader_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Leader of Afghanistan">Deputy Leader</a></li> <li>Head of the Commission for Military Affairs<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defense_(Afghanistan)" title="Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan)">Defense Minister</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Ghani_Baradar" title="Abdul Ghani Baradar">Abdul Ghani Baradar</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Third <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Leader_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Leader of Afghanistan">Deputy Leader</a></li> <li>Head of the Economic Commission<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting First Deputy Prime Minister</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Salam_Hanafi" title="Abdul Salam Hanafi">Abdul Salam Hanafi</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li> <li>Former Deputy Head of the Political Office</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting Second Deputy Prime Minister</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Kabir" title="Abdul Kabir">Abdul Kabir</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Head of the Commission for Preaching and Guidance, Recruitment and Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting Third Deputy Prime Minister (2021–present)</li> <li>Acting Prime Minister <i>pro tempore</i> (May–July 2023)</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Hakim_Haqqani" title="Abdul Hakim Haqqani">Abdul Hakim Haqqani</a></td> <td> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_Afghanistan" title="Chief Justice of Afghanistan">Chief Justice</a></li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Justice_(Afghanistan)" title="Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)">Justice Minister</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Amir_Khan_Muttaqi" title="Amir Khan Muttaqi">Amir Khan Muttaqi</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Head of the Leadership Office</li> <li>Former Head of the Commission for Cultural Affairs</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Afghanistan)" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Afghanistan)">Foreign Minister</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Manan_Omari" title="Abdul Manan Omari">Abdul Manan Omari</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li> <li>Former Head of the Commission for Preaching and Guidance, Recruitment and Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice</li> <li>Former Head of the Commission for Prevention of Civilian Casualties and Complaints</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Works_(Afghanistan)" title="Ministry of Public Works (Afghanistan)">Public Works Minister</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Noor_Mohammad_Saqib" title="Noor Mohammad Saqib">Noor Mohammad Saqib</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li> <li>Former Head of the Commission for Preaching and Guidance, Recruitment and Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Hajj_and_Religious_Affairs" title="Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs">Hajj and Religious Affairs Minister</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Din_Mohammad_Hanif" title="Din Mohammad Hanif">Din Mohammad Hanif</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Head of the Central Asia Department of the Political Office</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Economy_(Afghanistan)" title="Ministry of Economy (Afghanistan)">Economy Minister</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Latif_Mansur" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Latif Mansur">Abdul Latif Mansur</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li> <li>Former Head of the Commission for Agriculture, Livestock, Ushr, and Zakat</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Energy_and_Water" title="Ministry of Energy and Water">Energy and Water Minister</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Norullah_Noori" class="mw-redirect" title="Norullah Noori">Norullah Noori</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li> <li>Former member of the Political Office</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Borders_and_Tribal_Affairs" title="Ministry of Borders and Tribal Affairs">Borders and Tribal Affairs Minister</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gul_Agha_Ishakzai" title="Gul Agha Ishakzai">Gul Agha Ishakzai</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Former Head of the Commission for Financial Affairs</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Finance_(Afghanistan)" title="Ministry of Finance (Afghanistan)">Finance Minister</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Haq_Wasiq" title="Abdul Haq Wasiq">Abdul Haq Wasiq</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting Director <a href="/wiki/General_Directorate_of_Intelligence" title="General Directorate of Intelligence">Director of Intelligence</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sher_Mohammad_Abbas_Stanikzai" title="Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai">Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li> <li>Deputy Head of the Political Office</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting Deputy Foreign Minister</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Sadr" title="Ibrahim Sadr">Ibrahim Sadr</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting Interior Minister (2021)</li> <li>Acting Deputy Interior Minister (2021–present)</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Qayyum_Zakir" title="Abdul Qayyum Zakir">Abdul Qayyum Zakir</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting Defense Minister (2021)</li> <li>Acting Deputy Defense Minister (2021–present)</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Fazl" title="Mohammad Fazl">Mohammad Fazl</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li> <li>Member of the Political Office</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting Deputy Defense Minister (2021)</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Qasim_Rasikh" title="Mohammad Qasim Rasikh">Mohammad Qasim Rasikh</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li> <li>Former Head of the Guidance and Invitation Commission</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>1st Deputy <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_Afghanistan" title="Chief Justice of Afghanistan">Chief Justice</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Supreme Court of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan">Supreme Court</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mullah_Shirin_Akhund" title="Mullah Shirin Akhund">Mullah Shirin Akhund</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li> <li>Former Deputy Head of the Commission for Military Affairs for the Western Zone</li> <li>Former Deputy Head of the Commission of Military Affairs for the Northeastern Zone</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Kabul" title="List of governors of Kabul">Governor of Kabul</a> (2021)</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Taj_Mir_Jawad" title="Taj Mir Jawad">Taj Mir Jawad</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>Acting Deputy <a href="/wiki/General_Directorate_of_Intelligence" title="General Directorate of Intelligence">Director of Intelligence</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Zahid_Ahmadzai" title="Muhammad Zahid Ahmadzai">Muhammad Zahid Ahmadzai</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li></ul> </td> <td> <ul><li>former First Secretary to Taliban Embassy of Pakistan from 1996 to 2001</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sayyid Abdul Rahman</td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li></ul> </td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sheikh Sharif</td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li></ul> </td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td>Faizullah Noorzai Akhtar Mohammed Mira Khan</td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li></ul> </td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hafiz Abdul Majeed</td> <td> <ul><li>Member of the Leadership Council</li></ul> </td> <td>– </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quetta_Shura_(2002–2020)"><span id="Quetta_Shura_.282002.E2.80.932020.29"></span>Quetta Shura (2002–2020)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Quetta Shura (2002–2020)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Afghanistan" title="United States invasion of Afghanistan">United States invasion of Afghanistan</a> in 2001 and the end of the Taliban government, ten men who had held positions in the government formed a Council of Leaders (<i>Rahbari Shura</i>) in May 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They consisted of eight veteran high ranking (i.e. elite) commanders originally from the southern area of Afghanistan, another hailing from <a href="/wiki/Paktika_Province" title="Paktika Province">Paktika</a>, and another from <a href="/wiki/Paktia_Province" title="Paktia Province">Paktia</a>. The Shura was subsequently increased in number, during March 2003, to 33 individuals. During October 2006, the Consultative Council (<i>majlis al-shura</i>) was formed, comprising a number of advisors to 13 core members.<sup id="cite_ref-American_Foreign_Policy_Council_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-American_Foreign_Policy_Council-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Directing_the_insurgency_in_Afghanistan">Directing the insurgency in Afghanistan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Directing the insurgency in Afghanistan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">Taliban insurgency</a></div> <p>According to retired General of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Stanley_A._McChrystal" title="Stanley A. McChrystal">Stanley A. McChrystal</a>, the Quetta Shura was directing the Afghani Taliban <a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">insurgency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IAR_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IAR-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a report to President Obama in 2009, he stated that it posed the greatest threat to his troops. He said, "Afghanistan's insurgency is clearly supported from Pakistan. The Quetta Shura conducts a formal campaign review each winter, after which Omar announces his guidance and intent for the following year." Americans wanted to extend the <a href="/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Drone attacks in Pakistan">drone strikes</a> into Balochistan.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian1_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2009 US ambassador to Pakistan <a href="/wiki/Anne_W._Patterson" title="Anne W. Patterson">Anne W. Patterson</a> said, "In the past, we focussed on <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a> because they were a threat to us. The Quetta Shura mattered less to us because we had no troops in the region, now our troops are there on the other side of the border, and the Quetta Shura is high on Washington’s list."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Funding_from_Persian_Gulf_region">Funding from Persian Gulf region</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Funding from Persian Gulf region"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Taliban leaders raise money from wealthy Persian gulf donors and direct operations in south Afghanistan.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT1_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT1-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Lt. Gen. <a href="/wiki/David_Barno" title="David Barno">David Barno</a>, the retired former commander of American forces in Afghanistan "The Quetta Shura is extremely important, they are the intellectual and ideological underpinnings of the Taliban insurgency."<sup id="cite_ref-NYT1_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT1-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Support_from_Pakistani_intelligence">Support from Pakistani intelligence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Support from Pakistani intelligence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>American officials believe that the Quetta Shura gets support from parts of Pakistan's <a href="/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence" title="Inter-Services Intelligence">Inter-Services Intelligence</a> (ISI), as some of its senior officials believe that leaders such as <a href="/wiki/Mullah_Omar" title="Mullah Omar">Omar</a> would be valuable assets if the Taliban were to regain power after a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Abdul Rahim Mandokhel, a Pakistani <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Pakistan" title="Senate of Pakistan">senator</a> from <a href="/wiki/Zhob" title="Zhob">Zhob</a> in northern Balochistan. "The whole war in Afghanistan is being launched from here," he said. He accused Pakistan's intelligence agencies of carrying out a "double" policy. "One thing is clear: the area is being used for cross-border offences," he said.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian1_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A report by the <a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a> (LSE) claimed to provide the most concrete evidence yet that the ISI is providing funding, training and sanctuary to the <a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">Taliban insurgency</a> on a scale much larger than previously thought. The report's author Matt Waldman spoke to nine Taliban field commanders in Afghanistan and concluded that Pakistan's relationship with the insurgents ran far deeper than previously realised. Some of those interviewed suggested that the organization even attended meetings of the Taliban's supreme council, the Quetta Shura.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A spokesman for the Pakistani military dismissed the report, describing it as "malicious".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pakistani_relationship">Pakistani relationship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Pakistani relationship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Statement">Statement</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Statement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>American and western officials have long complained that Pakistan has ignored the presence of senior Taliban leadership in Quetta and done little to address this situation.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT1_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT1-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pakistani authorities have denied the existence of such an organization in Pakistan.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, statements by US officials have led to fears that US would launch <a href="/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan" title="Drone strikes in Pakistan">drone strikes</a> on Quetta.<sup id="cite_ref-DAWN1_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAWN1-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jehan Zeb Jamaldini, senior vice president of <a href="/wiki/Balochistan_National_Party_(Mengal)" title="Balochistan National Party (Mengal)">Balochistan National Party</a> was quoted as saying that Omar and his 2nd and 3rd tier leadership were around Quetta and would be targeted by the US.<sup id="cite_ref-DAWN1_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAWN1-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>Prime Minister of Pakistan <a href="/wiki/Imran_Khan" title="Imran Khan">Imran Khan</a> rejected the allegations of having Quetta Shura in Pakistan. He said these are just baseless allegations by our enemies. He added that Pakistan is not spokesperson for Taliban. If anyone has queries ask the Taliban directly.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Acknowledgement">Acknowledgement</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Acknowledgement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In December 2009 Pakistani government for the first time acknowledged the existence of Quetta Shura. The Defence minister of Pakistan, <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Mukhtar" title="Ahmad Mukhtar">Ahmad Mukhtar</a> acknowledged the presence of Quetta Shura but stated that security forces had damaged it to such an extent that it no longer posed a threat.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 23 November 2012, when Pakistan released nine senior Taliban leaders, commentator Ali K. Chishti described a statement from the Pakistani government as its first acknowledgment of the existence of the Quetta Shura.<sup id="cite_ref-TheFridayTimes2012-11-24_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheFridayTimes2012-11-24-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arrests">Arrests</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Arrests"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 2010, in a possible change in Pakistani policy, several members of the Quetta Shura were detained at various locations in Pakistan. Top <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Ghani_Baradar" title="Abdul Ghani Baradar">Abdul Ghani Baradar</a>, who ran the Shura, was captured in <a href="/wiki/Karachi" title="Karachi">Karachi</a> in a joint operation by <a href="/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence" title="Inter-Services Intelligence">Inter-Services Intelligence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had reportedly gone to Karachi to meet other Shura leaders who had moved to this city in recent months.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A few days later two more members of the Quetta Shura, <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Kabir" title="Abdul Kabir">Abdul Kabir</a> and Mohammed Yunis, the Taliban’s shadow governor of Zabul Province, were detained by Pakistani intelligence.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They will be handed over to Kabul if they have not committed crimes in Pakistan.<sup id="cite_ref-washpost-handover_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-washpost-handover-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Analysts were split on the question of why Pakistan moved against these key leaders. Many said that Pakistan had decided it wanted to control any negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc-analysis_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-analysis-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, according to <i><a href="/wiki/The_News_International" title="The News International">The News International</a></i>, the Pakistani establishment, in a major policy shift, had decided not to support the Shura and had arrested 9 of the 18 key members within a period of 2 weeks. The policy shift was made after pressure from the US as well as a request from the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Saud" title="House of Saud">Saudi Royal family</a><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Coalition_efforts_at_negotiations">Coalition efforts at negotiations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Coalition efforts at negotiations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In November 2009, it was reported that the British were pushing for talks between the Afghan government and the Shura. 'Major General <a href="/wiki/Richard_Barrons" title="Richard Barrons">Richard Barrons</a> said negotiations with the senior echelons of the Afghan Taliban leadership council – the Quetta shura – were being looked at, alongside the reintegration of insurgency fighters into civilian life. In his first interview since arriving in Afghanistan to begin talks with "moderate" Taliban fighters, Barrons said British officials were backing extensive talks between Karzai's government and the Quetta shura, which is led by Omar and is responsible for directing much of the fighting against British forces in Helmand province.'<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Early January 2010, some commanders from the Quetta Shura held secret exploratory talks with <a href="/wiki/Kai_Eide" title="Kai Eide">Kai Eide</a> to discuss peace terms, as emerged end of that month during the <a href="/wiki/International_Conference_on_Afghanistan_London_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="International Conference on Afghanistan London 2010">International Conference on Afghanistan in London</a>. The Shura had sought a meeting with the United Nations envoy, which took place in <a href="/wiki/Dubai" title="Dubai">Dubai</a> on 8 January 2010. This was the first such meeting between the UN and alleged senior members of the Taliban, suggesting that peace talks had revived since exploratory contacts between emissaries of the Kabul government and the Taliban in <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> in 2009 broke down. It was not clear how significant a faction had showed up in Dubai or how serious they were. A western official confirmed that there were <i>indications of splits in the Taliban over the prospect of a settlement</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Supporters of former presidential candidate <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Abdullah" title="Abdullah Abdullah">Abdullah Abdullah</a> predicted that negotiations could fail because the Karzai government was <i>too weak</i>, and other critics warned that trying to buy off insurgents created a <i>"moral hazard"</i> of rewarding combatants who had killed Western troops and local civilians.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Taliban sources denied that there had been such a meeting and dismissed them as <i>baseless rumors</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leaders">Leaders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Leaders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Taliban's Quetta Shura is the main leadership among <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_News_International" title="The News International">The News International</a></i>, Pakistani security officials had previously regarded Afghanistan's Taliban, the Quetta Shura, and <a href="/wiki/Pakistani_Taliban" title="Pakistani Taliban">Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan</a> as three separate entities. They reported that Pakistani security officials had changed their policy in early 2010, and had decided to treat all three organizations as one organization, and to crack down on the Quetta Shura. The reported nine of its eighteen leaders were captured in late February and early March 2010.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In August 2019, some Taliban leaders, including Hafiz Ahmadullah, the brother of Taliban emir Hibatullah Akhunzada, were killed in a bomb blast at the Khair Ul Madarais mosque, which had served as the main meeting place of the Taliban,<sup id="cite_ref-brotherkilled_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brotherkilled-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on the outskirts of Quetta.<sup id="cite_ref-brotherkilled_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brotherkilled-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 29 May 2020, it was reported that Omar's son <a href="/wiki/Mullah_Yaqoob" title="Mullah Yaqoob">Yaqoob</a> was now acting as leader of the Taliban after numerous Quetta Shura members where infected with <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-covid19_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-covid19-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was previously confirmed on 7 May 2020 that Yaqoob had become head of the Taliban military commission, making him the insurgents' military chief.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among those infected in the Quetta Shura, which continued to hold in-person meetings, were Hibatullah and Sirajuddin Haqqani.<sup id="cite_ref-covid19_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-covid19-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quetta_Shura_members">Quetta Shura members</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Quetta Shura members"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th><b>Name</b></th> <th><b>Notes</b> </th></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Mullah_Omar" title="Mullah Omar">Mohammed Omar</a></b></td> <td> <ul><li>Founder and <a href="/wiki/Amir_al-Mu%27minin" title="Amir al-Mu'minin">Supreme Commander</a> of the Taliban</li> <li>Now known to have not been in Quetta</li> <li>Death from illness in Afghanistan in 2013 not made public until late July 2015 by the Afghan government and then Taliban officials.</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Akhtar_Mansoor" class="mw-redirect" title="Akhtar Mansoor">Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Former Minister for Aviation during the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan">Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</a><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Believed to have been the "Shadow Governor" for <a href="/wiki/Kandahar_Province" title="Kandahar Province">Kandahar Province</a><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Succeeded Omar as the Supreme Leader of the Taliban<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Confirmed dead in late May 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hibatullah_Akhundzada" title="Hibatullah Akhundzada">Hibatullah Akhundzada</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Chief Justice of the <a href="/wiki/Sharia#Court_procedures" title="Sharia">Sharia courts</a> of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.<sup id="cite_ref-AJ_20160526_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AJ_20160526-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Current Supreme Leader of the Taliban<sup id="cite_ref-AJ_20160526_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AJ_20160526-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sirajuddin_Haqqani" title="Sirajuddin Haqqani">Sirajuddin Haqqani</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Current joint Deputy Leader of the Taliban<sup id="cite_ref-Taliban_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Taliban-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Hassan_Akhund" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Hassan Akhund">Moammad Hassan Akhund</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to have been "a former foreign minister in the Taliban regime".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reported captured in late February 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Current Prime Minister of the Taliban Government</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Rahmatullah Kakazada </td> <td> <ul><li>Former Consul General During the Taliban's rule in the 1990s, in Karachi, Pakistan.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://talibantracker.mei.edu/english/taliban/leadership-tracker/Rahmatullah-Kakazada-aka-Haji-Najib-Mullah-Nasir">[1]</a></li> <li>After 2001, he played a significant role as a key Taliban member in Ghazni province, responsible for intelligence collection, and, as of 2007, was reportedly responsible for appointing governors in Ghazni province.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://talibantracker.mei.edu/english/taliban/leadership-tracker/Rahmatullah-Kakazada-aka-Haji-Najib-Mullah-Nasir">[2]</a></li> <li>A key member of the Haqqani Network</li> <li>Current Director General of Public Relations for the Interior Ministry of Afghanistan and the Haqqani Network.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://talibantracker.mei.edu/english/taliban/leadership-tracker/Rahmatullah-Kakazada-aka-Haji-Najib-Mullah-Nasir">[3]</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Ghani_Baradar" title="Abdul Ghani Baradar">Abdul Ghani Baradar</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Reported captured on 11 February 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reported to have reorganized the Afghan Taliban's military wing.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Current First Deputy Prime Minister of the Taliban Government</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Kabir" title="Abdul Kabir">Abdul Kabir</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to be the Taliban's "shadow governor of <a href="/wiki/Nangarhar_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Nangarhar province">Nangarhar province</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reported captured in February 2010 in <a href="/wiki/Nowshera,_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa" title="Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa">Nowshera</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Current Third Deputy Prime Minister of the Taliban Government</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Amir_Khan_Muttaqi" title="Amir Khan Muttaqi">Amir Khan Muttaqi</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to be a "former minister in Taliban regime".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Current Acting Foreign Minister of the Taliban Government</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Qayyum_Zakir" title="Abdul Qayyum Zakir">Abdul Qayyum Zakir</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Previously held in Guantanamo under the name <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Ghulam_Rasoul" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul">Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AssociatedPress2010-03-04_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AssociatedPress2010-03-04-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reported captured in late February 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reported to remain at large, and be a candidate to replace Abdul Ghani Baradar.<sup id="cite_ref-AssociatedPress2010-03-04_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AssociatedPress2010-03-04-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rauf_(Taliban_governor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Rauf (Taliban governor)">Abdul Rauf</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Reported captured in late February 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reported to have been a "former chief operational commander of the Taliban in northeastern Afghanistan".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Also reported to be a former Guantanamo captive who was just 20 years old when initially captured.<sup id="cite_ref-AssociatedPress2010-03-04_64-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AssociatedPress2010-03-04-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Mir Muhammad</td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to be the Taliban's "shadow governor of <a href="/wiki/Baghlan_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Baghlan province">Baghlan province</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reported captured on 26 January 2010 in <a href="/wiki/Faisalabad" title="Faisalabad">Faisalabad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Salam_(Taliban_governor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Salam (Taliban governor)">Abdul Salam</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to be the Taliban's "shadow governor of <a href="/wiki/Kunduz_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Kunduz province">Kunduz province</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reported captured in late January 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Jan_Akhundzada" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahmad Jan Akhundzada">Ahmad Jan Akhundzada</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to have been a "former governor of <a href="/wiki/Zabul_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Zabul province">Zabul province</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reported captured in late February 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Younis" title="Muhammad Younis">Muhammad Younis</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to be an explosives expert who had served as a Police chief in Kabul during the Taliban rule.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Reported captured in late February 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Hasan_Rahmani" title="Mohammad Hasan Rahmani">Mohammad Hasan Rahmani</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Former governor of <a href="/wiki/Kandahar_province" class="mw-redirect" title="Kandahar province">Kandahar province</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Died of cancer on February 7, 2016</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hafiz Abdul Majeed</td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to be the "former Chief of the Afghan Intelligence" and the "surge commander of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Agha_Jan_Mutasim" class="mw-redirect" title="Agha Jan Mutasim">Agha Jan Mutasim</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to be "the Taliban’s head of political affairs".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Abdul Jalil</td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to be the "head of the Taliban’s shadowy interior ministry".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Latif_Mansur" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Latif Mansur">Abdul Latif Mansoor</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to be "the commander of the Mansoor Network in <a href="/wiki/Paktika" class="mw-redirect" title="Paktika">Paktika</a> and <a href="/wiki/Khost" title="Khost">Khost</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdur_Razzaq_(Taliban_Interior_Minister)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdur Razzaq (Taliban Interior Minister)">Abdur Razaq Akhundzada</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to be the former corps commander for northern Afghanistan.<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Abdullah Mutmain</td> <td> <ul><li>Reported to be "a former minister during the Taliban regime who currently looks after the financial affairs of the extremist militia".<sup id="cite_ref-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01_52-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheNewsInternational2010-03-01-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Agha_Jan_Motasim" title="Agha Jan Motasim">Agha Jan Motasim</a></td> <td> <ul><li>Former Taliban Finance Minister.<sup id="cite_ref-DailyStar2012-05-18_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DailyStar2012-05-18-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DailyBeast2012-04-25_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DailyBeast2012-04-25-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AfghanBioJanMotasim2012-05-16_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AfghanBioJanMotasim2012-05-16-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Formerly chair of the political committee, stripped of this position in 2009 following rumors of corruption—may have been forced from the Shura at this time.<sup id="cite_ref-DailyStar2012-05-18_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DailyStar2012-05-18-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DailyBeast2012-04-25_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DailyBeast2012-04-25-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AfghanBioJanMotasim2012-05-16_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AfghanBioJanMotasim2012-05-16-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Inner_Shura_(1996–2001)"><span id="Inner_Shura_.281996.E2.80.932001.29"></span>Inner Shura (1996–2001)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Inner Shura (1996–2001)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to U.S. intelligence, the "Inner Shura" of the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan_(1996%E2%80%932001)" title="Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)">First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</a> was originally a collective leadership body, but gradually lost power as over the course of the Taliban's first year in government as <a href="/wiki/Mullah_Omar" title="Mullah Omar">Mullah Omar</a> developed a <a href="/wiki/Cult_of_personality" title="Cult of personality">cult of personality</a>. It had 23 members. <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Ghous" title="Mohammad Ghous">Mohammad Ghous</a> was reportedly a member. It was based in <a href="/wiki/Kandahar" title="Kandahar">Kandahar</a>. Also known as the Supreme Council, it was chaired by Omar.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Stanford_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stanford-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force" title="International Security Assistance Force">International Security Assistance Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haqqani_network" title="Haqqani network">Haqqani network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consultative_Assembly_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia">Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Consultative_Assembly" title="Islamic Consultative Assembly">Islamic Consultative Assembly</a> of Iran</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consultative_Assembly_of_Qatar" title="Consultative Assembly of Qatar">Consultative Assembly of Qatar</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Leadership_Council_of_Afghanistan&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 November</span> 2012</span>. <q>Pakistan acknowledged the existence of a Quetta Shura in a statement by Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar after repeated denials in December 2009.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Change+of+heart%3F&rft.date=2012-11-24&rft.au=Ali+K.+Chishti&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefridaytimes.com%2Fbeta3%2Ftft%2Farticle.php%3Fissue%3D20121123%26page%3D3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeadership+Council+of+Afghanistan" class="Z3988"></span> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/world/asia/16intel.html">Secret Joint Raid Captures Taliban’s Top Commander</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, 2010-02-15</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110604203617/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7029075.ece">Profile: Mullah Baradar - father of the roadside IED</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a>, 2010-02-16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/world/asia/23islamabad.html">Pakistani Reports Capture of Taliban Leader</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, 2010-02-22</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-washpost-handover-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-washpost-handover_39-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKarin_Brulliard2010" class="citation news cs1">Karin Brulliard (25 February 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/25/AR2010022501119.html">"Pakistan to hand over Taliban No. 2, says Afghanistan"</a>. <i>Washington Post</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Washington+Post&rft.atitle=Pakistan+to+hand+over+Taliban+No.+2%2C+says+Afghanistan&rft.date=2010-02-25&rft.au=Karin+Brulliard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2010%2F02%2F25%2FAR2010022501119.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeadership+Council+of+Afghanistan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMark_Mazzetti_and_Jane_Perlez2010" class="citation news cs1">Mark Mazzetti and Jane Perlez (24 February 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/world/asia/25intel.html?hp=&pagewanted=all">"CIA and Pakistan work together, but do so warily"</a>. <i>New York Times</i>. <q>Washington and Kabul hint that the ISI's goal seems to be to weaken the Taliban just enough to bring them to the negotiating table, but leaving them strong enough to represent Pakistani interests in a future Afghan government.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=CIA+and+Pakistan+work+together%2C+but+do+so+warily&rft.date=2010-02-24&rft.au=Mark+Mazzetti+and+Jane+Perlez&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F02%2F25%2Fworld%2Fasia%2F25intel.html%3Fhp%3D%26pagewanted%3Dall&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeadership+Council+of+Afghanistan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bbc-analysis-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-bbc-analysis_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> "There has been a change in Pakistan's attitude," said Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid. "Pakistan now wants to dominate any kind of dialogue that takes place." <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLyse_Doucet2010" class="citation news cs1">Lyse Doucet (19 February 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8521823.stm">"Pakistan's push for new role in Afghanistan"</a>. BBC News.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Pakistan%27s+push+for+new+role+in+Afghanistan&rft.date=2010-02-19&rft.au=Lyse+Doucet&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fsouth_asia%2F8521823.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeadership+Council+of+Afghanistan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=27544">Pakistan wipes out half of Quetta Shura</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100307224718/http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=27544">Archived</a> 7 March 2010 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_News_International" title="The News International">The News International</a>, 2010-03-01</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/29/afghanistan-withdrawal-summit-gordon-brown">Afghanistan summit to plan for withdrawal</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a>, 29 November 2009</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/28/taliban-united-nations-afghanistan">UN in secret peace talks with Taliban</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a>, 28 January 2010</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/world/asia/30reconcile.html">"U.N. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 February</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=VOA&rft.atitle=Afghan+Taliban+Deny+Meeting+with+UN&rft.date=2010-01-29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww1.voanews.com%2Fenglish%2Fnews%2Fasia%2FAfghan-Taliban-Deny-Meeting-with-UN-83147162.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeadership+Council+of+Afghanistan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60T0NE20100130">"Afghan Taliban deny meeting U.N. envoy"</a>. <i>Reuters</i>. 30 January 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 May</span> 2012</span>. <q>One of the most powerful men on the Taliban council, Agha Jan Motasim, nearly lost his life in a hail of bullets for advocating a negotiated settlement that would bring a broad-based government to his beleaguered homeland of Afghanistan.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Moderate+Taliban+member+speaks+of+rifts+within+movement&rft.date=2012-05-18&rft.au=Kathy+Gannon&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmuslimvillage.com%2F2012%2F05%2F18%2F23118%2Fmoderate-taliban-member-speaks-of-rifts-within-movement%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeadership+Council+of+Afghanistan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DailyBeast2012-04-25-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DailyBeast2012-04-25_66-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DailyBeast2012-04-25_66-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSam_Yousafzai,_Ron_Moreau2012" class="citation news cs1">Sam Yousafzai, Ron Moreau (25 April 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130203231550/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/25/afghanistan-a-moderate-defies-the-taliban.html">"Afghanistan: A Moderate Defies the Taliban"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Daily_Beast" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Beast">Daily Beast</a>. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 May</span> 2012</span>. <q>Not so long ago, Agha Jan Motasim was one of the most important men in the Afghan Taliban. That was before he was sacked as head of the ruling Quetta Shura's political committee—and before the day last August when someone pumped him full of bullets and left him for dead on a street in Karachi.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Afghanistan%3A+A+Moderate+Defies+the+Taliban&rft.date=2012-04-25&rft.au=Sam+Yousafzai%2C+Ron+Moreau&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Farticles%2F2012%2F04%2F25%2Fafghanistan-a-moderate-defies-the-taliban.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALeadership+Council+of+Afghanistan" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_news" title="Template:Cite news">cite news</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_bot:_original_URL_status_unknown" title="Category:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-AfghanBioJanMotasim2012-05-16-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-AfghanBioJanMotasim2012-05-16_67-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-AfghanBioJanMotasim2012-05-16_67-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.afghan-bios.info/index.php?option=com_afghanbios&id=768&task=view&total=2510&start=995&Itemid=2">"Afghan biographies: Jan, Motasim Agha"</a>. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Afghan_biographies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Afghan biographies (page does not exist)">Afghan biographies</a>. 16 May 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="Indus Valley Civilisation">Indus Valley civilisation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurya_Empire" title="Maurya Empire">Maurya Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Khorasan" title="Greater Khorasan">Greater Khorasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokhara_Yabghus" title="Tokhara Yabghus">Yabghus of Tokharistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turk_Shahis" title="Turk Shahis">Turk Shahis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindu_Shahis" title="Hindu Shahis">Hindu Shahis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muslim_conquests_of_Afghanistan" title="Muslim conquests of Afghanistan">Islamic conquest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_Central_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongol conquest of Central Asia">Mongol invasion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hotak_dynasty" title="Hotak dynasty">Hotak dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kandahar" title="Siege of Kandahar">Siege of Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durrani_Empire" title="Durrani Empire">Durrani Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Panipat" title="Third Battle of Panipat">Third Battle of Panipat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dost_Mohammad_Khan" title="Dost Mohammad Khan">Dost Mohammad Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Afghanistan" title="Emirate of Afghanistan">Emirate of Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Jamrud" title="Battle of Jamrud">Battle of Jamrud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan%E2%80%93Sikh_Wars" title="Afghan–Sikh Wars">Afghan–Sikh Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War" title="First Anglo-Afghan War">First Anglo-Afghan War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Anglo-Afghan_War" title="Second Anglo-Afghan War">Second Anglo-Afghan War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War" title="Third Anglo-Afghan War">Third Anglo-Afghan War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Afghanistan" title="Kingdom of Afghanistan">Kingdom of Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Civil_War_(1928%E2%80%931929)" title="Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)">Reforms of Amānullāh Khān and civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saqqawists" title="Saqqawists">Saqqawists</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emirate_of_Afghanistan_(1929)" title="Emirate of Afghanistan (1929)">Emirate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Afghanistan_(1973%E2%80%931978)" title="Republic of Afghanistan (1973–1978)">Daoud's Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Democratic Republic of Afghanistan">Democratic Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War" title="Soviet–Afghan War">Soviet war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Afghanistan_(1992%E2%80%93present)" title="History of Afghanistan (1992–present)">since 1992</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic State of Afghanistan">Islamic State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan_(1996%E2%80%932001)" title="Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)">First Islamic Emirate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Afghanistan" title="United States invasion of Afghanistan">2001 invasion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War (2001–2021)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">Islamic Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Second Islamic Emirate</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="By_topic" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">By topic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Afghan_history" title="Timeline of Afghan history">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Arabs_in_Afghanistan" title="History of Arabs in Afghanistan">Arabs in Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_influence_in_Afghanistan" title="European influence in Afghanistan">European influence</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Graveyard_of_empires" title="Graveyard of empires">Graveyard of empires</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan" title="War in Afghanistan">Wars in Afghanistan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Afghanistan" title="Geography of Afghanistan">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Afghanistan" title="Subdivisions of Afghanistan">Administrative divisions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Borders_of_Afghanistan" title="Template:Borders of Afghanistan">Borders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_change_in_Afghanistan" title="Climate change in Afghanistan">Climate change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Afghanistan" title="List of earthquakes in Afghanistan">Earthquakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Afghanistan" title="Environmental issues in Afghanistan">Environmental issues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extreme_points_of_Afghanistan" title="Extreme points of Afghanistan">Extreme points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Afghanistan" title="List of volcanoes in Afghanistan">Volcanoes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wildlife_of_Afghanistan" title="Wildlife of Afghanistan">Wildlife</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Afghanistan" title="Demographics of 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title="Turkmens">Turkmens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzbeks" title="Uzbeks">Uzbeks</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_in_Afghanistan" title="Health in Afghanistan">Health</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Afghanistan" title="Languages of Afghanistan">Languages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dari" title="Dari">Persian (Dari)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_Afghanistan" title="Women in Afghanistan">Women</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Afghanistan" title="Politics of Afghanistan">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Guinea)" title="National Assembly (Guinea)">Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_People%27s_Assembly_(Guinea-Bissau)" title="National People's Assembly (Guinea-Bissau)">Guinea-Bissau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Guyana)" title="National Assembly (Guyana)">Guyana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Congress_of_Honduras" title="National Congress of Honduras">Honduras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Hungary)" title="National Assembly (Hungary)">Hungary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Althing" title="Althing">Iceland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Consultative_Assembly" title="Islamic Consultative Assembly">Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knesset" title="Knesset">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Assembly_(Kiribati)" title="House of Assembly (Kiribati)">Kiribati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_People%27s_Assembly" title="Supreme People's Assembly">North Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(South_Korea)" title="National Assembly (South Korea)">South Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Kuwait)" title="National Assembly (Kuwait)">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Council_(Kyrgyzstan)" title="Supreme Council (Kyrgyzstan)">Kyrgyzstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Laos" title="National Assembly of Laos">Laos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saeima" title="Saeima">Latvia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Lebanon" title="Parliament of Lebanon">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Libya)" title="House of Representatives (Libya)">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landtag_of_Liechtenstein" title="Landtag of Liechtenstein">Liechtenstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seimas" title="Seimas">Lithuania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chamber_of_Deputies_(Luxembourg)" title="Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg)">Luxembourg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Malawi)" title="National Assembly (Malawi)">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Majlis" title="People's Majlis">Maldives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Mali)" title="National Assembly (Mali)">Mali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Malta" title="Parliament of Malta">Malta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislature_of_the_Marshall_Islands" title="Legislature of the Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mauritanian_Parliament" title="Mauritanian Parliament">Mauritania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Mauritius)" title="National Assembly (Mauritius)">Mauritius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Moldova" title="Parliament of Moldova">Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Council_(Monaco)" title="National Council (Monaco)">Monaco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Great_Khural" title="State Great Khural">Mongolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Montenegro" title="Parliament of Montenegro">Montenegro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assembly_of_the_Republic_(Mozambique)" title="Assembly of the Republic (Mozambique)">Mozambique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Nauru" title="Parliament of Nauru">Nauru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="New Zealand House of Representatives">New Zealand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Nicaragua)" title="National Assembly (Nicaragua)">Nicaragua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Niger)" title="National Assembly (Niger)">Niger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assembly_of_North_Macedonia" title="Assembly of North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Storting" title="Storting">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Legislative_Council" title="Palestinian Legislative Council">Palestine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Panama)" title="National Assembly (Panama)">Panama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Parliament_of_Papua_New_Guinea" title="National Parliament of Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congress_of_the_Republic_of_Peru" title="Congress of the Republic of Peru">Peru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assembly_of_the_Republic_(Portugal)" title="Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)">Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consultative_Assembly_of_Qatar" title="Consultative Assembly of Qatar">Qatar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Assembly_of_Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines" title="House of Assembly of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Samoa" title="Legislative Assembly of Samoa">Samoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_and_General_Council" title="Grand and General Council">San Marino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe)" title="National Assembly (São Tomé and Príncipe)">São Tomé and Príncipe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Consultative_Assembly_of_Saudi_Arabia" title="Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Senegal)" title="National Assembly (Senegal)">Senegal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Serbia)" title="National Assembly (Serbia)">Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Seychelles)" title="National Assembly (Seychelles)">Seychelles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Sierra_Leone" title="Parliament of Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Singapore" title="Parliament of Singapore">Singapore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Council_(Slovakia)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Council (Slovakia)">Slovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Parliament_of_Solomon_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="National Parliament of Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Parliament of Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Suriname)" title="National Assembly (Suriname)">Suriname</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riksdag" title="Riksdag">Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Assembly_of_Syria" title="People's Assembly of Syria">Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Tanzania)" title="National Assembly (Tanzania)">Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Togo)" title="National Assembly (Togo)">Togo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Tonga" title="Legislative Assembly of Tonga">Tonga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assembly_of_the_Representatives_of_the_People" title="Assembly of the Representatives of the People">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_National_Assembly_of_Turkey" title="Grand National Assembly of Turkey">Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Tuvalu" title="Parliament of Tuvalu">Tuvalu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Uganda" title="Parliament of Uganda">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verkhovna_Rada" title="Verkhovna Rada">Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Vanuatu" title="Parliament of Vanuatu">Vanuatu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontifical_Commission_for_Vatican_City_State" title="Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State">Holy See (Vatican City)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Vietnam)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly (Vietnam)">Vietnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Yemen)" title="House of Representatives (Yemen)">Yemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Zambia" title="National Assembly of Zambia">Zambia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">Dependent and<br />other territories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_%C3%85land" title="Parliament of Åland">Åland Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Assembly_(Anguilla)" title="House of Assembly (Anguilla)">Anguilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Aruba" title="Parliament of Aruba">Aruba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_the_Azores" title="Legislative Assembly of the Azores">Azores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Assembly_of_the_British_Virgin_Islands" title="House of Assembly of the British Virgin Islands">British Virgin Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_Cayman_Islands" title="Parliament of the Cayman Islands">Cayman Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_Cook_Islands" title="Parliament of the Cook Islands">Cook Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Cura%C3%A7ao" title="Parliament of Curaçao">Curaçao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_the_Falkland_Islands" title="Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands">Falkland Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%B8gting" title="Løgting">Faroe Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assembly_of_French_Polynesia" title="Assembly of French Polynesia">French Polynesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gibraltar_Parliament" title="Gibraltar Parliament">Gibraltar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inatsisartut" title="Inatsisartut">Greenland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislature_of_Guam" title="Legislature of Guam">Guam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/States_of_Guernsey" title="States of Guernsey">Guernsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Council_of_Hong_Kong" title="Legislative Council of Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/States_Assembly" title="States Assembly">Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Madeira" title="Legislative Assembly of Madeira">Madeira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Macau" title="Legislative Assembly of Macau">Macau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Montserrat" title="Legislative Assembly of Montserrat">Montserrat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congress_of_New_Caledonia" title="Congress of New Caledonia">New Caledonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niue_Assembly" title="Niue Assembly">Niue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Island_Council_(Pitcairn)" title="Island Council (Pitcairn)">Pitcairn Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_Council_of_Saint_Barth%C3%A9lemy" title="Territorial Council of Saint Barthélemy">Saint Barthélemy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Council_of_Saint_Helena" title="Legislative Council of Saint Helena">Saint Helena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Collectivity_of_Saint_Martin" title="Politics of the Collectivity of Saint Martin">Saint Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_Council_of_Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon" title="Territorial Council of Saint Pierre and Miquelon">Saint Pierre and Miquelon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Sint_Maarten" title="Parliament of Sint Maarten">Sint Maarten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tobago_House_of_Assembly" title="Tobago House of Assembly">Tobago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Fono" title="General Fono">Tokelau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Assembly_(Turks_and_Caicos_Islands)" title="House of Assembly (Turks and Caicos Islands)">Turks and Caicos Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislature_of_the_Virgin_Islands" title="Legislature of the Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territorial_Assembly_of_Wallis_and_Futuna" title="Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna">Wallis and Futuna</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_states_with_limited_recognition" title="List of states with limited recognition">Non-UN states</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Assembly_of_Abkhazia" title="People's Assembly of Abkhazia">Abkhazia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assembly_of_the_Republic_of_Kosovo" title="Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo">Kosovo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assembly_of_the_Republic_(Northern_Cyprus)" title="Assembly of the Republic (Northern Cyprus)">Northern Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sahrawi_National_Council" title="Sahrawi National Council">Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_South_Ossetia" title="Parliament of South Ossetia">South Ossetia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Yuan" title="Legislative Yuan">Taiwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Council_(Transnistria)" title="Supreme Council (Transnistria)">Transnistria</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Artsakh)" title="National Assembly (Artsakh)">Artsakh (1991–2023)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provisional_Congress_of_the_Confederate_States" title="Provisional Congress of the Confederate States">Confederate States (1861–1862)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Communist_Czechoslovakia)" title="National Assembly (Communist Czechoslovakia)">Czechoslovakia (1948–1969)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1il_%C3%89ireann_(Irish_Republic)" title="Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic)">Irish Republic (1919–1922)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_Island_Legislative_Assembly" title="Norfolk Island Legislative Assembly">Norfolk Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volksraad_(Orange_Free_State)" title="Volksraad (Orange Free State)">Orange Free State (1854–1902)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Scotland" title="Parliament of Scotland">Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Serbia_and_Montenegro" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro">Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sicilian_Parliament" title="Sicilian Parliament">Sicily</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Council_(Sikkim)" title="State Council (Sikkim)">Sikkim (1953–1975)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volksraad_(South_African_Republic)" title="Volksraad (South African Republic)">South African Republic (1857–1902)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bicameralism" title="Bicameralism">Bicameralism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tricameralism" title="Tricameralism">Tricameralism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multicameralism" title="Multicameralism">Multicameralism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_legislatures_by_country" title="List of legislatures by country">List of legislatures by country</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:National_bicameral_legislatures" title="Template:National bicameral 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Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Armenia">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Azerbaijan" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Bahrain" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Bahrain">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Bangladesh" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Bhutan" title="Parliament of Bhutan">Bhutan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Brunei" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Brunei">Brunei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Cambodia" title="Parliament of Cambodia">Cambodia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of China">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Cyprus" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Cyprus">Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_East_Timor" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of East Timor">East Timor (Timor-Leste)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Egypt" title="Parliament of Egypt">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Georgia_(country)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Georgia (country)">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_India" title="Parliament of India">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Indonesia" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Indonesia">Indonesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Iran" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Iran">Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Iraq">Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Israel">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Japan">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Jordan" title="Parliament of Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Kazakhstan" title="Parliament of Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_North_Korea" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of North Korea">North Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_South_Korea" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of South Korea">South Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Kuwait" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Kuwait">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Kyrgyzstan" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Laos" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Laos">Laos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Lebanon" title="Parliament of Lebanon">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Malaysia" title="Parliament of Malaysia">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_Maldives" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of the 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