Taliban Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar reappears on video, after there was talk of his alleged injury or even murder in a fight with members of the Haqqani network inside the presidential palace in Kabul: "I'm fine and I'm healthy. I was out. from Kabul and I didn't have access to the internet to reject fake news, "he said.
"Thanks to Allah we have good relations between us and we respect each other. Our relations are even better than in a family", assures Mullah Baradar in an interview on the Afghan state radio, but reading a text that seems to be composed by someone who wanted make him say those exact words.
"We did not know that the foreign minister of Qatar would come", said the deputy premier again to try to justify his mysterious absence from the first international meetings of the government, especially given his past as head of the Taliban delegation that negotiated in Doha with the United States. News of internal clashes was also denied by Anas Haqqani, one of the leaders of the homonymous network close to Al Qaeda and Pakistani services.
According to the BBC, however, there would have been tensions, and how: Baradar would have preferred a government structure more inspired by diplomacy and for this reason he would have been silenced.
Meanwhile, today the first cabinet meeting was held at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, chaired by the Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate, Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, to discuss "security, politics and economy". Among the decisions, local media report, there is the release of humanitarian aid and the lifting of restrictions on telecommunications in Panshir, the northern province where resistance to the mullahs has concentrated.
(Unioneonline / D)
