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Mohammad Hasan (1950/51 – 23 September 2014) was the Taliban governor of Kandahar and foreign minister for the Taliban. Hasan was born in Oruzgan in the early 1950s and raised in poverty. He attended a maddressa in Quetta, Pakistan. Hasan fought as a mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War, where in 1988 he lost one of his legs during a raid on a Soviet base. As governor of Kandahar, Hasan governed in strict accordance with the Taliban's interpretation of Sharia law, which called for the death penalty for adultery and amputation for thievery. Regarding homosexuality, Hasan stated, "According to the Koran, homosexuality is a great sin. I have listened to the radio, and I know that even in the rest of the world there is a great struggle against this. But our religious scholars are not agreed on the right kind of punishment. Some say we should take these sinners to a high roof and throw them down, while others say we should dig a hole beside a wall, bury them, then push the wall down on top of them." However, in practice, homosexuals were punished only by public shaming. His rule also required men to grow beards and banned television and cinema.He spoke to Reuters in 2003 via satellite phone. On 23 September 2014, Hasan was killed by Pakistani military forces in the Boya area of North Waziristan. Before his death, he had been released from an Afghan prison.

Sirajuddin Haqqani (Arabic: سراج الدين حقاني‎ aliases Khalifa, and, Siraj Haqqani. born c. 1973 to 1980) is an Afghan military leader who is one of the two deputies of Taliban supreme commander, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada. He is also the leader of the Haqqani network, a sub-set of the Taliban organisation, and a scion of the Haqqani clan. As deputy leader of the Taliban, he oversaw armed combat against American and coalition forces, reportedly from a base within North Waziristan District in Pakistan. On 26 May 2016, it was reported that his role as deputy was mostly involved in military affairs. On 7 May 2020, it was reported that late Taliban founder Mohammad Omar's son Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob had become head of the Taliban military commission, thus making Yaqoob the insurgents' new military chief.On 7 May 2021, he was appointed as Minister of Interior in Taliban second government.