Afghanistan: Taliban’s Mullah Baradar denies rumours of his death
Al Jazeera
Taliban’s former political office chief in Doha is ‘absolutely fine and healthy’ amid rumours of internal divisions.
A top Taliban leader has said he is alive, denying rumours of his killing that surfaced following reports of an internal split in the Taliban group nearly a month after it took over Kabul.
The Taliban’s deputy prime minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar appeared in an interview with the country’s national broadcaster on Wednesday and revealed he was “travelling from Kabul so had no access to the media in order to reject this news”.
“This news is not true. Thank God I am absolutely fine and healthy,” he told Radio Television Afghanistan, according to the Associated Press.
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