{"id":16121,"date":"2026-06-28T15:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/28\/taliban-appoints-mawlawi-mohammad-ali-jan-deputy-defense-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T15:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:45:21","slug":"taliban-appoints-mawlawi-mohammad-ali-jan-deputy-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/28\/taliban-appoints-mawlawi-mohammad-ali-jan-deputy-defense-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Appoints Mawlawi Mohammad Ali Jan as Deputy Minister of Defense for Supply, Technology, and Logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban administration announced that, based on the decree of its leader, Mawlawi Mohammad Ali Jan Ahmad has been appointed as the Deputy Minister of Supply, Technology, and Logistics at the Ministry of Defense. Previously, he served as the Deputy Minister for Coordination of Loya Jirgas, Ethnicities, and Tribes at the Ministry of Borders, Ethnicities, and Tribes.<\/p>\n<p>This appointment was officially announced today in a formal ceremony attended by several officials from the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Borders, Ethnicities, and Tribes. At the event, Mullah Hamidullah Akhundzada, First Deputy Minister of Defense, formally introduced Mawlawi Mohammad Ali Jan.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers at the event emphasized the importance of carrying out duties with honesty and commitment and wished success for the new deputy minister.<\/p>\n<p>High-level appointments within the Taliban administration are typically made by direct decree from the group&#8217;s leader\u2014a process that occurs without electoral mechanisms or public oversight and has consistently raised concerns about transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban appoints Mawlawi Mohammad Ali Jan as Deputy Defense Minister for Supply, Technology, and Logistics, highlighting concerns over transparency in appointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}