Tag: Mullah Baradar

ISLAMABAD: Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai and the country's erstwhile chief executive Dr Abdullah Abdullah are suspected to be under house arrest in Kabul, with cautious social media interactions and occasional visits by foreign dignitaries under Taliban surveillance their only known link with the world outside. Amid the flight ...

NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s ISI is sponsoring and putting together an alliance of smaller jihadi groups in Afghanistan, distinct from the Taliban and the ISKP, according to a new report. These new jehadists are distinguished by their even more extreme ideology and apparently undermine the Taliban. A new report in ...

The Afghan Taliban will be under major stress in the coming weeks and months as they focus on the challenges of governance. Such pressure could generate fresh internal tensions, says analyst Michael Kugelman. In recent days, reports have abounded of disputes within the Taliban, purportedly fueled by the formation ...

The man the U.S. and its allies hoped would be a moderate voice in Afghanistan’s Taliban government has been sidelined after a dramatic shootout in the presidential palace in Kabul, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s most ...

Issued on: 15/09/2021 - 22:09 Friction between pragmatists and ideologues in the Taliban leadership has intensified since the group formed a hard-line Cabinet last week that is more in line with their harsh rule in the 1990s than their recent promises of inclusiveness, said two Afghans familiar with the ...

Two senior Taliban leaders have gone missing from public view, leading to questions in Kabul about whether they are alive or dead, a report by The Guardian said on Tuesday. The movement’s supreme leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, has not been seen in public ever since the Taliban seized Kabul ...

Taliban today said that news of Mullah Baradar's death is false.The Taliban have denied that one of their top leaders has been killed in a shootout with rivals, following rumours about internal splits in the movement nearly a month after its lightning victory over the Western-backed government in Kabul.Sulail ...

Issued on: 14/09/2021 - 11:34Modified: 14/09/2021 - 11:41 The Taliban have denied that one of their top leaders has been killed in a shootout with rivals, following rumours about internal splits in the movement nearly a month after its lightning victory over the Western-backed government in Kabul. Sulail Shaheen, ...

The Taliban held their first press conference since seizing control of Afghanistan on Tuesday. Spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the ultraconservative insurgents would "not seek revenge" and that "everyone is forgiven." The words were met with skepticism from the UN while Germany said it would judge the Taliban "by their actions" ...

Issued on: 16/08/2021 - 17:52 The Taliban movement has always been headed by secretive characters, such as co-founder Mullah Omar or current supreme leader Baibatullah Akhunzada. As the insurgents completed their takeover of Afghanistan on Sunday, it is the group's most public face, political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who appeared on social media ...