Kabul: There is a big split among the Taliban in Afghanistan. This has been revealed recently after the death of Taliban government minister Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani in a suicide attack in Kabul. The attacker blew himself up inside the ministry building, raising suspicions that he had received top-level clearance from the government. It is reported that the Kandahar group led by Taliban’s supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada wants to remove Sirajuddin Haqqani from control of Afghanistan. Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, who died, was the uncle of Sirajuddin Haqqani, the interior minister in the Taliban government and head of the Haqqani group. Why is Akhundzada angry with Haqqani? News 18 report quoted sources as saying that Akhundzada’s biggest concern is That the Haqqani group is not working for Afghanistan but for its own vested interests. According to sources, Sirajuddin Haqqani was told through Kandahar that he is bound to obey him completely. Sources said Kandahar also wanted Haqqani to keep a low profile and implement Sharia in the country. Akhundzada also directed him not to appear in the media and not to broadcast or publish videos or photos. . Sources said Kandahar had made it clear to Haqqani that if he did not listen to them, he should resign. The Haqqanis come from the Zadran tribe and have ten districts along the Durand Line. Haqqani appoints officials for those ten districts. However, sources said that recently the Kandahar group did not allow the Haqqani group to appoint and evicted them from their own hometown. Sirajuddin Haqqani was not ready to accept defeat. After this, Haqqani visited his native place and attacked the suicide bomber. Inaugurated a mosque in the name of Hayatullah. This was a signal to Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada that whatever was achieved was due to him being with them and the grassroots workers could not be forgotten. During his inauguration speech here, Haqqani talked about hundreds of suicide attacks under his command. Weapons and ammunition were also snatched from Haqqani. According to sources, Hibatullah Akhundzada also became angry after Haqqani’s interview to the media and ammunition And the locks and keys of the arms depot were snatched from them. A recent meeting of the Kandahar cabinet also reported a scuffle between Hibatullah Akhundzada and Sirajuddin Haqqani over the issue of NGOs, which are seen as a key economic base for the Afghan government. According to sources, there are 2,700 Afghan NGOs and 278 foreign NGOs and in total, they employ 80,000 Afghan people, who are scrutinized by the Taliban, mainly by the Haqqani faction. Haqqani group making money from NGOs?Akhundzada it Haqqani sees it as an economic base, not for the country. Akhundzada also sees it as a threat that foreign countries are empowering Haqqani and sending money in the name of foreign NGOs. Amidst this tension, he has attacked Khalil Haqqani, who was the master and brain behind Siraj Haqqani. Akhundzada had the command of suicide bombers. According to sources close to exiled President Amrullah Saleh, four-five months after the fall of Kabul, Akhundzada moved the headquarters of the suicide bombers from Kabul to Kandahar and since then he has been directly controlling and preaching to them. Sources said that this clearly shows that this was an attempt to remove the control of suicide brigade and suicide academy from Haqqani and take it to Kandahar under Akhundzada. Big advantage for ISIS in Afghanistan. Earlier, Baghlan police chief and Taliban commander Saifullah was killed in Badakhshan. Was done. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), but sources close to Amrullah Saleh said it was speculated that he was killed by an insider and ISKP was bribed to take responsibility. In such a situation, there is also a possibility that ISKP may benefit from the infighting between Taliban.
