Reports Of A Rift Between Taliban’s Top Leadership
Reports of a rift between Taliban’s top leadership, deepening of contradictions and divisions in the government: Afghanistan.
There are reports of a split between the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan. The conflict within the group that occupied Afghanistan last month is at its peak.
The recent disappearance of Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar from public forums shows that all is not well within the Taliban’s top leadership.
Questions have been raised on the unity within the Taliban.
Sources told that the discord between the Taliban’s top leadership is very real and if the rift escalates it will cause trouble for the people.
Public skepticism about the Taliban’s unity was only heightened earlier this month when Baradar publicly disappeared.
Some reports suggest that he has been killed. But when he reappeared, it was not himself but a recorded statement.
In this record Baradar publicly cited travel as the reason for his absence. Reading out his statement, he rejected any opposition and said that the Taliban love each other more than a family.
However, a writer and reporter who spent many years covering the Taliban said that the split is the result of a politico-military divide.
Reports of a rift between Taliban’s top leadership: The hardliners said they felt they were owed 20 years of fighting, media reported.
A political source who has decades-long ties with top Taliban officials agreed, saying the rift’s impact extended from power to the streets.
The Taliban are passing through major cities and forcibly taking over the belongings of former officials and their families.
The source said that at the moment, they only care about people’s cars and homes.
The families of the former officers have told media that the Taliban have tried to seize their belongings, including their home and their personal cars.
This comes despite Deputy Minister of Information and Culture Zabihullah Mujahid’s statement two days after the Taliban took over the country.
In these statements he instructed everyone not to enter anyone’s home, whether civilians or soldiers.
