On the recent visit of the Foreign Minister of Qatar, where he was absent, Baradar said that he was unable to meet the visiting Qatari dignitary as he was on the visit.
The Taliban’s deputy prime minister of Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has released a video message now under intense pressure and questions over his whereabouts.
Baradar said, “There were reports in the media about my health and death. For the last few nights I have been on tours. Wherever I am at the moment, we are all fine, all my brothers and friends.” The clip, ARY News reported.
“The media always publishes fake propaganda. So, bravely dismiss all those lies, and I confirm to you 100 percent that there is no problem in the ranks of the Taliban and we have no problem.”
On the recent visit of the Foreign Minister of Qatar, where he was absent, Baradar said that he was unable to meet the visiting Qatari dignitary as he was on the visit.
The report said that there was information about the sudden visit of the Foreign Minister of Qatar to Afghanistan. The Daily Mail previously reported that speculation about Baradar’s fate intensified when Taliban leaders met senior Qatari representatives in Kabul on Sunday, in which he was conspicuously absent.
On Monday, the Taliban were forced to deny that Baradar was killed after rumors surfaced that he was killed during an encounter with his political rivals.
The Taliban have insisted that Baradar is meeting with the group’s supreme leader in Kandahar province, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, to discuss the country’s future, now that the US has withdrawn.
But social media rumors believe that he was actually killed in a gun battle at Kabul’s presidential palace, which broke out during a meeting with the powerful and brutal Haqqani family, the report said.
The report said three members of the Haqqani family were at the summit led by Prime Minister Mohamed Hassan Akhund, along with representatives from Qatar, along with other members of the new Afghan government.
A major dispute broke out between Taliban leaders over the formation of the group’s new government in Afghanistan last week, the BBC reported. The report said that Baradar and a cabinet member had an argument at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
In recent days there have been unconfirmed reports of dissent in the Taliban leadership since Baradar’s disappearance. A Taliban source told BBC Pashto that Baradar and Khalil ur-Rahman Haqqani, the minister for refugees and a prominent figure within the militant Haqqani network, had exchanged stern words as their followers clashed with each other. Were were
Taliban sources told the BBC that Baradar had left Kabul and traveled to the city of Kandahar following the dispute.
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