Taliban eye launching new government in Afghanistan soon

The Taliban plan to launch a government in Afghanistan soon, with supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada at the helm, a senior official of the fundamentalist group that has seized control of the country said Thursday.Amid speculation that a hard-line member designated by the United States as a global terrorist may join the new Cabinet, the outside world, which wants to avoid seeing Afghanistan revert to being a breeding ground for terrorism, is likely to face a hard choice on whether to recognize the new government.A Taliban government will come into being as the withdrawal of U.S. forces af…READ FULL ARTICLE