A big fight broke out last week inside the presidential palace in Kabul days after the country’s interim government was unveiled over internal clashes over who deserves credit for the withdrawal from the United States and how positions were shared. of power, according to a report.
The BBC report on Wednesday, citing senior Taliban officials, said the fight was between two factions that wanted to earn credit for defeating the US.
Mulllah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister, and Khalil ur-Rahman Haqqani, the main leader of the Haqqani network, “exchanged forceful words as their followers fought among themselves closely,” the BBC reported.
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Baradar’s position is that diplomacy in Qatar lasted the day, while the famous Haqqqani network insists victory was achieved thanks to its relentless will to fight.
Baradar has not been seen in public and it is rumored that he may have been killed. The Taliban have denied that the fight ever took place and have released an unverified video intended to show Baradar alive and well.
Following the withdrawal of Western troops and the sudden return to power of the Taliban last month, the US and its allies have used money, possible reconnaissance and isolation warnings to pressure them to repeat their repressive rule of the 1990s. . At the time, the Taliban imposed a harsh interpretation of Islamic law, including severe restrictions on women and minorities.
The Taliban have been trying to position themselves as a moderate group since they took control of Kabul after a widely criticized exit from the US. But critics say they have done little to instill confidence in Western countries after installing what Senator Lindsey Graham called a “training of thugs and butchers.”
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The incident, if true, would be a disgrace to the group determined to show stability.
The Associated Press contributed to this report