KABUL: Taliban Co-Founder and now Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan released a Monday audio statement that he was still alive and good after news about his death became a viral on social media.
Abdul Ghani Baradar, which last week was named as number two for Mullah Mohammed Hassan Akhund, blamed the “fake propaganda” for rumors of death in an audio message posted by the Taliban.
Social media has experienced madness for speculation – especially in India, where rumors circled that he had been hurt in a shootout between the rival Taliban faction at the Presidential Palace.
“There is news in the media about my death,” Baradar said in a clip.
“During the last few nights I have gone on the way.
Wherever I am now, we are all fine, all my brothers and friends.” The media always publishes fake propaganda.
Therefore, reject all the lies, and my 100 percent confirmed to you there was no problem and we did not have a problem.
“It is impossible to authenticate messages, but posted on the official Taliban website – including the spokesman from the new government political office.
Taliban’s highest leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, is also rumored to have died for several years before a group spokesman said he was” present in Kandahar “two The week after they took power.
Chatter in Pakistan and Afghanistan “has suggested he has contracted Covid or died in the bombing.