 The Taliban named Surajdin Harkhani as Interior Minister on Tuesday, but his organization is on a U.S. tourism list. Harkhani is the son of the founder of the Harkhani network, designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, initially backed by the United States as one of the most effective anti-Soviet militia in the 1980s. The group was blamed for some of the deadless attacks on coalition forces. The network has been named a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, although the Taliban itself has not. The United Nations Sanctions Committee has said the group, based in the lawless frontier areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has close involvement in drugs production and trade.