Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil
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Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil was the foreign minister in the Taliban government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Prior to this he served as spokesman and secretary to Mullah Mohammed Omar, leader of the Taliban. After the Northern Alliance accompanied by U.S. and British forces ousted the regime, Mutawakil surrendered in Kandahar to government troops.
Despite his position with the Taliban leadership, he is now a part of the present government under Hamid Karzai's administration and may even be seen as a moderate. Mutawakil ran for parliamentary elections in September 2005.
W.A Mutawakil's brother Maulvi Jalil Ahmed was for six years a Muslim cleric in the city of Quetta, Pakistan. He was killed during a shooting incident in Quetta in July 2005. [1]
