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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, ...

Peshawar: Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, the chief of the Taliban’s powerful decision-making body ‘Rehbari Shura’, has been named as Afghanistan’s new head of state by the insurgent group’s top leader Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada, according to a Pakistani media report.Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Chairman of Taliban’s Political Office in Doha, ...

The Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar has been named as the deputy leader in the new caretaker government of Afghanistan announced on Tuesday weeks after the armed group took over the country in a stunning military sweep. Baradar, who headed the Taliban’s political office in Doha, has been the ...

Islamabad: The Taliban on Monday confirmed that Pakistan's powerful intelligence chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed has met its de-facto leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, amidst efforts by the insurgent group to finalise a government in Afghanistan. Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Lt Gen Hameed dashed to Kabul on an ...

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Taliban leader stresses security is necessary to overcoming challenges facing the country.Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the head of the Taliban’s political office, has told Al Jazeera the group is in the process of forming an inclusive government following its lightning takeover of the country last ...

NEW DELHI: As the Taliban appear set to announce Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, the group’s public face for the past three years as their leader, India is hoping his recent experience of being chief international negotiator with the US and head of outreach with other major powers will ...

WASHINGTON: America’s top spy held a secret meeting with the Taliban’s de facto leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul on Monday in the highest-level face-to-face encounter between the two sides since the militant group seized the Afghan capital, a media report said on Tuesday. The Taliban seized power in ...

Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has arrived in Kabul for talks to hammer out a new Afghan government, nearly a week after the armed group seized the capital without resistance. The Taliban completed its sudden advance across the country as United States-led forces pulled out, coinciding with what ...

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 ...

Source link www.rferl.org Mohammad Yaqoob was virtually unknown five years ago when the Taliban disclosed the mysterious death of his father and its founder, Mullah Mohammad Omar. The Taliban acknowledged that its spiritual leader had been dead for more than two years, soon after Afghan intelligence said he had ...