Kabul, Afghanistan: The friction between pragmatic and ideologies in the Taliban leadership was increasingly intensive because the group formed a hard-line cabinet last week which was more in line with their hard rules in the 1990s than their crabi promises, said two Afghans with strength.
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Wrangling has been happening behind the scenes, but rumors quickly began circulating about the recent confrontation of violence between two camps in the Presidential Palace, including the claim that the pragmatic faction leader Abdul Ghani Baradar, was killed.
Rumors reached such intensity that audio recording and handwriting statements, both of them were said to be by Baradar himself, denied that he had been killed.
Then on Wednesday, Baradar appeared in an interview with the country’s national TV.
“I traveled from Kabul so it didn’t have access to the media to reject this news,” Baradar said about the rumor.
Baradar served as the main negotiator during talks between Taliban and the United States which paved the way for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, which was completed at the end of August, two weeks after the Taliban raised the capital Kabul.
Shortly after the takeover of Kabul, Baradar had become the first senior Taliban official who held back the possibility of an inclusive government, but hopes like it was disappointed with the formation of an all-male lineup, all-Taliban last week.
In further marks that Hard-Liners have won, the White Taliban flag was appointed to the Presidential Palace, replacing the National Flag of Afghanistan.
A Taliban official said the leadership still had not made a final decision about the flag, with a lot of leaning towards finally flying both banners side by side.
He spoke with anonymous requirements because he was not permitted to discuss internal deliberations with the media.
The two Afghans who are familiar with power struggles also speak with anonymous requirements to protect the confidentiality of those who share their dissatisfaction for the cabinet lineup.
They said a cabinet minister played by rejecting his position, angered by the All-Taliban government who drove the country’s ethnic minority and religion.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has denied Rifts in leadership.
On Tuesday, the Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mutaqi, rejected the report as “propaganda”.
Baradar is actually none of the main functions.
For example, he was not at the Presidential Palace earlier this week to accept Deputy Prime Minister Qatar, Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdur Rahman Al-Thani, who is also the Minister of Foreign Affairs and made the highest level of foreign visit since the Taliban takeover.
Baradar absence was booming because Qatar had been hosting for years as the head of the Taliban political office in the capital of Qatar Doha.
But in the interview shown on Wednesday, Baradar said he did not participate in the meeting because he did not realize the visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to Kabul.
“I’ve gone and can’t go back,” Baradar said.
Some of the familiar officials and Afghanistans and contact with Baradar told the previous Associated Press that he was in the capital of Southwestern Province Kandahar for a meeting with Taliban Leader Haibatullah Akhunzada.
The figure of another Taliban said Baradar visited the family he had not seen in 20 years of war.
Analysts said the friction may not number serious threats for the Taliban, for now.
“We have seen for years that despite disputes, the Taliban remains a cohesive institution and that big decisions do not get a serious pushback after the fact,” said Michael Kugelman, Deputy Director of the Asian Program in Wilson Center based in Washington.
“I think the current internal dispute can be managed,” he said.
“Still, the Taliban will be under a lot of pressure because it tries to consolidate its strength, get legitimacy, and overcome the main policy challenges.
If this effort fails, a stressful organization can see more and more serious.” However, the Taliban Division is currently more difficult to resolve without the rules of the founder of a heavy group, the deceased Mullah Omar, who demanded unnecessary loyalty.