IEA’s supreme leader orders officials to sack sons from public offices

IEA’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has banned officials from hiring their sons and ordered them to be dismissed and replaced.

The Administrative Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan issued the decree attributed to Akhundzada, stating that sons of IEA officials working in government administrations based on personal connections have been fired.

The decree was announced on Saturday, March 18, stating that the officials of the ministries, departments, and administrations should refrain from recruiting employees based on family and personal ties.

As per the new verdict, all government officials who employed one or more sons at the same institution they are working for, are dismissed effective from the date of this announcement and should be replaced with new employees.

Typically, the recruitment process in government administrations is executed based on the decrees issued by Akhundzada or other senior IEA members.

In another decree, Akhundzada banned the cultivation of cannabis plants and emphasized that hereafter no one is allowed to cultivate cannabis on their land.

Normally, the cannabis plant is cultivated in semi-tropical regions of the country.