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Taliban appoint new central council, ousting dissidents

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KABUL have appointed four new members, including Tajik, Uzbek and Turkmen, to their central council, the group’s top decision-making body, sources revealed on Thursday.

A meeting, chaired by Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor last week, named Abas Stanikzai as head of Taliban’s political office in Qatar and Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi as his deputy.

Previously, the Taliban’s Doha office was headed by Mullah Mohammad Omar’s spokesman Tayeb Agha, but he . . .

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