KABUL: The loss of Mullah Abdul Ghani recently, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirates in Afghanistan from the public eye, shows that all is not good in the leadership of the Taliban.
There were division reports among Taliban leadership, raising questions about unity in groups that took over Afghanistan last month, reported Al Jazeera.
The sources told Al Jazeera’s “very real” dispute and if the disharmony grew, it would surprise the problem for people.
Public doubts about the group’s unity only increased earlier this month, when Baradar seemed to have disappeared from public views, with several reports that he was killed.
When Baradar reappears, it’s in pre-recorded videos.
Reading clearly from several statements, Baradar said it waning it from the public eye was the result of traveling, and that the Taliban, “has mercy among our own, more than the family”, reported Al Jazeera.
In the last effort to facilitate suspicion about death or injury, Baradar was photographed to attend a meeting with UN officials on Monday.
However, a writer and reporter who spent several years including the Taliban said the division was the result of military political divisions.
The hardlines, he said, “felt that they were indebted in 20 years of battle”, reported Al Jazeera.
Political sources that have a long relationship for decades with Brass Top Taliban agreed and said that the effects of cracks stretched from the power hall to the streets, where Taliban fighters had gone through big cities and forcibly took goods from former officials and their family.
“At present, what they care about is carrying a car and a house,” said the source.
Families of former officials have told Al Jazeera that Taliban fighters have tried to seize their belongings, including the homes they rent and their private car.
This apart from the Deputy Minister of Information and Culture, Zabihullah Mujahid, said two days after the Taliban took the country that “we have instructed everyone not to enter anyone’s house, whether they are civilians or military”.
On August 17, during the media briefing, Mujahid continued by saying, “There was a big difference between us and the previous government.” However, for those who are familiar with the situation, the Taliban leadership currently faces many of the same problems as the factions as the government of former President of Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country the Taliban day took Kabul.
The source told Al Jazeera that with other Afghan governments, divisions among the Taliban fell along the personality line.
But unlike the previous administration, the Taliban did not only suffer from members who were too ambitious or opposed political views, their split was far more fundamental.
Taliban face disputes among the highest leadership
