<span style="color: #222222;">Hundreds of Kabul residents came out on the streets today in protest against what they said was meddling by Pakistan in Afghanistan's affairs, three weeks after the Taliban's takeover.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Taliban fired shots into air to disperse crowd at the protest, reports various news agencies.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to news agency TOLO reports some journalists covering the protests have been arrested.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The armed group has not yet announced a government, but the name of a lesser known Taliban leader who is in the United Nations terror watch list, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, is doing the rounds as a compromise candidate for the next Prime Minister of Afghanistan.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Disagreements between the terrorist group's multiple factions have so far stymied government formation in the war-torn nation.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The main contenders for power include the Doha unit of the Taliban headed by Mullah Baradar, the Haqqani Network, a semi-independent terror outfit that operates in eastern Afghanistan, and the Kandahar faction of the Taliban.</span><br />