The arrival in Kabul of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, co-founder of the Taliban and head of the insurgents’ political office in Qatar, has raised consultations to form a new government in Afghanistan after the bloodless takeover of the Afghan capital by fundamentalists last Sunday.
Mullah Baradar, whose name sounds strong as Afghanistan’s next president, arrived in Kabul late Friday to take part in ongoing talks to decide on the country’s new government structure. and its foundations, which as has been repeated will be based on sharia or Islamic law.
“Yes, His Excellency, Mullah Baradar, has arrived in Kabul and is busy in meetings and consultations,” Taliban spokesman Bilal Karimi told Efe on Saturday.
The spokesman explained that “meetings and consultations are being held on the formation of the new (political) system and the result will be shared with the nation once completed.”
Taliban leaders are also in talks with prominent figures in the previous Afghan government or opposition, who head an emergency interim council formed to help in the transition of power in Afghanistan with the insurgents.
At the front are former Afghan President Hamid Karzai. the former head of the Executive and chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah, and the leader of the Hizb-e-Islami party and former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Abdullah met today, he revealed on Twitter, with the Taliban’s interim governor for Kabul, Abdul Rahman Mansour, who told him that in order to “return to normalcy” in Kabul, “citizens need to feel safe. and insurance “.
The former chief executive in the coalition government with former President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country last Sunday when the Taliban entered Kabul, had also met this week at his residence with Khalil Al -Rahman Haqqani, a senior member of the dreaded Haqqani Network, designated a terrorist by the United States, and a Taliban delegation.
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Mullah Baradar, 53, is one of the most well-known faces among the Taliban. Co-founder of the Taliban militia, for years he was considered the right hand of Mullah Omar, the founding leader of the fundamentalist insurgent movement.
As head of the insurgents ’political office in Qatar, he played an important role in the historic deal with the United States in February 2020, which set the date for the final withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan, which is scheduled to conclude this month.
Mullah Baradar arrived last Tuesday in Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban movement, in what was apparently the first time since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 that such a high-level Taliban delegation traveled to the Afghanistan.
This trip came just one day after Mullah Baradar himself declared in a speech the end of the war in Afghanistan with the victory of the ultraconservatives, a milestone unexpected for its speed and which was completed last Sunday. with the flight of Ghani and the bloodless capture of Kabul.
“We have achieved an unexpected victory (…) we must show humility before Allah,” he said then in the first public statement of a Taliban leader after the conquest of the country.
Baradar referred to this historic moment after the insurgent victory as “the moment of trial.”
“Now it’s about how we serve and protect our people, and how we secure their future, to offer a good life the best we can,” he added.
EVACUATION
While Taliban leaders send messages of reconciliation among the population, assuring them of a “general amnesty” and that there will be no retaliation between those who collaborated with the Americans and their allies, a part of the population is not he trusts and desperately seeks to leave the country on an evacuation flight.
This fear has caused thousands of people to continue to fill the vicinity of the international airport, a chaotic situation that causes stampede and access to drops inside, while security forces throw smoke or deterrent shots and explosions to contain to the crowd.
Among those seeking to leave the country and run into chaos at the airport are Afghan journalists and human rights defenders, as Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounced today.
In a statement, their secretary general, Christophe Deloire, noted that they receive “dozens and dozens of urgent evacuation requests” and that the problem is not obtaining visas for them or seats on aircraft departing from Kabul, but ” getting these people to get on the planes. “