Mullah Akhund to head interim Taliban govt.

The Taliban announced that Mullah Hasan Akhund has been appointed interim prime minister of Afghanistan.

Who is Mullah Akhund ?

Akhund served as foreign minister in Taliban government of the 1990s
Akhund is a conservative, religious scholar whose beliefs include restrictions on women and the denial of civil rights for ethic and religious minorities.
He served on the Taliban’s shura councils, the traditional decision-making body made up of religious scholars and mullahs — an honorific given to those trained in Islamic theology.
Akhund is best known as one of the architects of the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the giant cliff statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.