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Newshour: 21/08/2021 12:06 GMT: Taliban co-founder to set up government

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21/08/2021 12:06 GMT

21/08/2021 12:06 GMT: Taliban co-founder to set up government

Taliban co-founder to set up government

BBC World Service - Newshour, Taliban co-founder to set up government

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar arrived in Kabul for talks to establish a new government

Mullah Baradar’s arrives in Kabul after consultations in the southern city of Kandahar. There’s a promise of “inclusive” rule. But there’s never been any suggestion this is any more than an invitation to join an Islamic system dominated by the Taliban.

Also in the programme: People in Afghanistan are scared as banks remain shut for the seventh day and chaos continue in Kabul airport with people trying to flee; and President Joe Biden has again defended the US pull-out, we get a reaction from a former Commander of the NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan.

(Photo: Mullah Baradar Akhund, a senior official of the Taliban, during a video statement released on August 16, 2021. Credit: Reuters.)

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