fighters when the just crumbled afghan government was not. so we have got double talking. we ve got drug dealing. we have now a government that the taliban claim that they are going to be able to form. one of the taliban co-founders came into the afghanistan today. presumably, to start the work of forming a government. i wonder what your sense is of how they deal with some of the things that governments, in general, have to deal with, including what chris asked about. chris wants to know what we can expect the future of covid to look like in afghanistan under the taliban? professor, i think that s a really good object question considering how many kinds of forms of expertise and government powers and intergovernmental relationships it takes to fight a pandemic. i just don t see how the taliban s supposed to do that. yeah. and and and how are they going to get more of the vaccine in? the person you are talking about, by the way, mullah
bardara who just came in, is currently serving as a deputy. he came in from doha where he was running their their political outfit. and he was actually in prison before. so it s going it s going to be interesting. but with regard to getting getting vaccines out and other governmental services, just really briefly. you currently have um a leader and bardara who is a co-founder of the taliban, mullah omar allegedly died in 2013. it is disputed whether he died in afghanistan or pakistan as our cia says but bottom line is you have a leader now. bardara might come up and and replace the current one who is the taliban supreme court justice leader. um, and then below that, you have councils that consist of 26 members and you have about 17 commissions which are tasked
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