Mullah Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil (born 1958? was the foreign minister of Afghanistan in the Taliban government from 1999 until its fall in November 2001. He was believed to be as much of a radical Muslim fundamentalist as the rest of the Taliban leadership, but was more accessible to journalists, who often reported that he did not belong to the inner circle of the Taliban leadership. He was captured by American forces in 2002.
Abdul Haq was arrested by the Taliban and executed within hours by the militia.
In Islamabad, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, stated that until evidence was procured, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was not prepared to surrender Osama bin Laden to the United States.
Afghan Foreign MinisterAbdulWakilMotawakil said that, with some "rare" exceptions, all international flights over Afghanistan, including those by the U.N. and International Committee of the Red Cross, would be stopped unless the United Nations released funds from frozen aviation accounts.
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