A top Taliban leader has said he’s alive, denying rumours of his outlay that surfaced following reports of an internal split in the Taliban group nearly a month after it took over Kabul.

The Taliban’s deputy top minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar appeared in an interview with the country’s public 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 isn’t true. Thank God I’m absolutely fine and healthy,” he told Radio Television Afghanistan, according to the Associated Press.

“ The news about our internal conflict the media are reporting is also not true. We’ve compassion among ourselves, further than a family. We assure the Afghan nation, Mujahideen, elders, and youth don’t worry and there’s no reason to be sweat.”

The Taliban also released vid footage purportedly showing Baradar at meetings in the southern megalopolis of Kandahar.
Baradar served as the foremost mediatrix during declamations between the Taliban and the US that paved the way for US troop pullback from Afghanistan which was completed in late August, two weeks after the Taliban took over the capital.

Internal competitions
The denials follow days of rumours that Baradar’s allies collided with those of Sirajuddin Haqqani, head of the Haqqani network that’s grounded near the border with Pakistan and was censured for some of the worst self-destruction attacks of the war.

The Taliban have hourly denied the flutter over internal divisions.

Baradar, once seen as the likely head of a Taliban government, hadn’t been seen in public for some time and wasn’t part of the sacerdotal delegation which met Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Kabul on Sunday.

Taliban’s supreme leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada, has also not been seen in public since the fit group seized the capital on August 15, although he issued a public statement when it named the group’s new government last week.