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Zia Sharir

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

The Taliban are a very secretive government, one of the most secretive with a leader who is not showing his face and do not come out.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

Pictures are not taken from him.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

So what we tried to do was to look at into their daily operations and how they are governing Afghanistan.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

But also last year, there was a leaked audio that we obtained in the BBC and it

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

In that audio, the leader of the Taliban expresses concern about internal division inside the Taliban.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

His concern talks about the differences inside the Taliban that could eventually topple down their government.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

So our one year investigation was focused on to finding out what are these differences and who are opposing each other inside the Taliban government.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

And we found out that, in fact, there are two groups.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

One is based in Kandahar, led by Hebatullah Khanzada himself.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

The Kandahar group is loyalist to the leader who are pushing and supporting the radical and extremist policies that Hebatullah Khunzada is pushing across the country, particularly on women education and women's work, but also in relation to their relationship with the world.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

They are more

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

into isolationist policies, and also the strict implementation of the Sharia law or the morality law, which is a major source of difference between the two groups, and also the concentration of power.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

So they're concentrating a lot of power in Kandahar.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

The leader is in charge of pretty much everything in the government.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

But then we have the Kabul group,

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

consisting of the defense minister, interior minister, and the deputy prime minister.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

The most famous of them are Saroj Deen Haqqani, who was once the leader of the Haqqani network, a very feared militant group.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

But now he's sort of showing, and also a group around him,

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

showing more interest into moderate policies, particularly, again, into female education.

Global News Podcast
BBC reveals rift at top of Taliban regime

And also they are not happy about the concentration of power in Kandahar.

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