Mullah Mullah () is an honorific title for Islam, Muslim clergy and mosque Imam, leaders. The term is widely used in Iran and Afghanistan and is also used for a person who has higher education in Islamic theology and Sharia, sharia law. The title h ...

Abdul Haq Hamkar Akhund ( ), also spelt Abdul Haq Akhand or Abdulhaq Akhund, is the Deputy Interior Minister for Counter Narcotics of the

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

since 7 September 2021.

Career

On 6 September 2021, Akhund met with President of the

International Committee of the Red Cross The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate. The organization has played an instrumental role in the development of rules of war and ...

(ICRC) Peter Maurer in

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and informed him about the current problems and challenges in Afghanistan in the healthcare sector, to which the ICRC promised its assistance. On 7 September 2021, Akhund was made Deputy Interior Minister for Counter Narcotics of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

References

Living people Taliban government ministers of Afghanistan Year of birth missing (living people) {{Afghanistan-politician-stub