While the US marked the 20th anniversary of the9/11 terror attacks on Saturday, the Taliban raised their white flag over the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul. The flag was raised in a low- critical ceremonial by the Taliban interim government ’s Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund. With this, as per Taliban functionaries, the authorized work of the all- man-size, all-Taliban government has started, two decades after the US forces started driving out the Taliban from the land.
Meanwhile, former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who came the first President of the country after the Taliban were defeated by the US forces in 2001, called for peace and stability in a tweet, expressing opportunity that the new buffet would come an inclusive government, yea as it presently has no women and nonon-Taliban members.
India and Australia, on the other hand, unseasonably on Sunday issued a combined statement that called for a broad- grounded and inclusive government in turbulent Afghanistan and beckoned that neither of the countries was willing to give any recognition to the
Taliban authority as the head of the country. The two nations accentuated the clamant need for all countries to take “ immediate, sustained, confirmable and irredeemable ” action to cinch that no habitat under their control is used for terrorist attacks and to expeditiously bring to justice the perpetrators of analogous strikes.
Stay tuned as Financial Express Online brings you live updates on the Afghanistancrisis.Taliban’s mouthpiece Zabiullah Mujahid, who appeared before the media for the first time in a decade at a press conference after the insurrectionary group seized Kabul last month, said that he lived in the Afghan capital right under the nose of his adversaries who considered him a’ ghost- analogous’ figure during thewar.Mujahid, who operated in the candlelight for ages, also admitted that he studied at the Haqqania seminary in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan, which has also been dubbed the Taliban University or the’ University of Jihad’ internationally. ” They (US US and Afghan National Forces) used to allow I didn’t be,
” Mujahid told The Express Tribune diurnal in an interview. ” I escaped so legion times from their raids and attempts to capture me that they seriously considered that’ Zabiullah’ was a made up figure, not a real man who exists, ” the 43- age- old mouthpiece said. ” And yet, I managed to move about Afghanistan freely. I allow this perception helped with that, ” he explained. ” I lived in Kabul for a long time, right under everyone’s points. I mooched the extent and breadth of the country. I also managed to have first- hand access to the frontlines, where the Taliban carried out their conduct, and up to date information. It was like puzzling for our adversaries.
” Due to his shadowy appearance for bits, there was flier as to whether the faceless point man might actually be farther than one person. ” The US forces would hourly pay off locals to get some information about my whereabouts. Using that information, like I said, they must have launched dozens of intelligence- predicated operations hoping to find some trace of me, ” he said. ” But I nowise left or tried to– yea suppose about stab to leave Afghanistan. ” Mujahid, who was born in the Gardez quarter of Paktia line ultimately in 1978, said that he specialised in Islamic judiciary from the Haqqania seminary in northwest Pakistan.
The Taliban government’s acting innards minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, Water and Energy Minister Mullah Abdul Latif Mansoor and Telecommunication minister Najibullah Haqqani-all on the UN blacklist-and Education Minister Maulana Abdul Baqi Haqqani studied at the Haqqania seminary, which has regularly admitted allocations from back-to-back governments in Pakistan. Mujahid said he came the mouth of the Taliban following the arrest of his ancestor. He also said that he’d nowise seen the Taliban begetter Mullah Umar. ” But I’ve worked with Sheikh Mullah Mansoor, and Sheikh Hebatullah, ” he said, appertaining to Mullah Omar’s successors. (PTI PTI)