Mullah Abdul Haq Akhund was appointed Director General/Chief Executive Officer, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), the state-owned electricity company, in January 2026.
Prior to this appointment, he briefly served as Deputy Minister for Finance and Administrative Affairs at the Ministry of Public Works. Before that, he was Deputy Minister for Counternarcotics at the Ministry of Interior. In that role, he oversaw the development and implementation of the Taliban government policies and programs aimed at combating the cultivation, production, trafficking, and interdiction of narcotics in Afghanistan.
During the 1990s, he served as Chief of Police and later as a public health official under the Taliban regime. He also reportedly held the position of provincial director of information and culture in Kandahar province. Considered a senior figure within the Taliban’s security hierarchy, he holds the rank of "LOY-PASSWAL," a designation equivalent to "Commissioner of Police."
Abdul Haq Akhund is the brother of Mullah Saaduddin Saeed, who currently serves as Deputy Director-General of the National Environment Protection Agency in the Taliban administration. Notably, of his three other brothers, the youngest, Ihsanullah, was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Zhari district, Kandahar province.
