No PhD, Master's degree required...non-high schooler Mullahs and Taliban are the greatest': Taliban education minister

A day after assuming the role, education minister and Taliban leader Sheikh Molvi Noorullah Munir questioned the significance of higher education.

"No PhD degree, Master's degree is valuable today. You see that the Mullahs and Taliban that are in power, have no PhD, MA or even a high school degree but are the greatest of all," the minister is heard saying in a video viral on social media,

The education minister in the Taliban regime is one of the 33 members of the government announced yesterday.

The Taliban named Mulla Mohammed Hasan as the Prime Minister of its caretaker government.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of the feared Haqqani network, who is a "specially designated global terrorist", has been named the interior minister.

All the key positions in the cabinet have been given to the top leaders from the Taliban and the Haqqani network, the most radical faction of the Taliban, known for deadly attacks.

Mullah Yakub, the son of the Taliban  founder and late supreme leader Mullah Omar,  is the Defence Minister.

Co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar has been appointed the deputy prime minister.

Not a single woman has been allotted any position in the government.

Hibadatullah Akhundzada, the top leader of Taliban, in a statement said that the new government would "work hard to uphold Islamic values and Sharia law".

Realising the desperate need for validation from the international community, the militant islamist group had
promised an improvement in its thinking and forming an inclusive government.

However, so far, the reality on the ground and the pronouncements of its leaders have proved otherwise.