Taliban name new Afghan government, interior minister on U.S. sanctions list

People run away at a street as Taliban open fire on anti-Pakistan protesters, in Kabul, Afghanistan in this still image obtained from a social media video. Asvaka News Agency/via REUTERS

(Reuters) -The Taliban drew from its inner high echelons to fill top posts in Afghanistan's new government on Tuesday, including an associate of the Islamist militant group's founder as premier and a wanted man on a U.S. terrorism list as interior minister.

World powers have told the Taliban the key to peace and development is an inclusive government that would back up its pledges of a more conciliatory approach, upholding human rights, after a previous 1996-2001 period in power marked by bloody vendettas and oppression of women.