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His experience also sheds ranks of the CIA-and Pakistan- been listed by the US as a ter- light on the Taliban’s compli- backed Mujahideen to fight rorist network. cated relationship with neigh- against the Soviet Union dur- ! Karzai and Abdullah boring Pakistan. ing its decadelong occupation Abdullah, a senior official in Baradar is the only surviv- of the country that ended in 6!2657 the ousted Government, met ing Taliban leader to have been 1989. with Anas Haqqani as part of personally appointed deputy by In the 1990s, the country ome unpalatable news for preliminary meetings that a the late Taliban commander slid into civil war, with rival Sthe country’s nationwide spokesman for Karzai said Mullah Mohammed Omar, giv- Mujahideen battling one vaccination drive has surfaced. would facilitate eventual nego- ing Baradar near-legendary another and carving out fief- The World Health basis that they tiations with Mullah Abdul status within the movement. doms. Warlords set up brutal Organization (WHO) has iden- deliberately/fraudulently mis- Ghani Baradar, the top Taliban And he is far more visible protection rackets and check- tified counterfeit versions of represent their identity, com- political leader. than the Taliban’s current points in which their forces Covishield in India and position or source. The US branded the supreme leader, Maulawi shook down travelers to fund Uganda. As per a global news The counterfeit Covishield Haqqani network a terrorist Hibatullah Akhunzada, who is their military activities. agency report, the doses were vial detected in Uganda was a group in 2012, and its involve- believed to be in hiding in In 1994, Mullah Omar, seized by authorities in India 5 ml dosage form containing 10 ment in a future Government Pakistan and only releases Baradar and others founded the and Uganda between July and doses. It had a batch number could trigger international occasional statements. Taliban, which means religious August. Even vaccine maker 4121Z040 and the falsified sanctions. On Tuesday, Baradar land- students. Serum Institute of India has expiry date of August 10. The Taliban have pledged ed in the southern Afghan city The group mainly consist- confirmed to the WHO that The fake one detected in to form an “inclusive, Islamic a key role in negotiations The Taliban say they seek eyes are now on Baradar, who of Kandahar, the birthplace of ed of clerics and young, pious the vaccines were fake. India was 2 ml — 4 doses vial. government,” although skeptics between the Taliban and offi- an “inclusive, Islamic” has said little about how the the Taliban movement he men, many of whom had been Now, the WHO has issued The SII doesn’t produce such point to its past record of cials from the Afghan Government and claim they group will govern but has helped found in the mid-1990s. driven from their homes and a Medical Product Alert about vials. intolerance for those not adher- Government that the militant have become more moderate proven pragmatic in the past. Ending 20 years of exile, he was had known only war. counterfeit Covishield vaccines The WHO’s Global ing to its extreme interpreta- group deposed in its blitz since they last held power. But Baradar’s biography charts thronged by well-wishers as he Their unsparing interpre- circulating in the two countries. Surveillance and Monitoring tions of Islam. across the country. many remain skeptical, and all the arc of the Taliban’s journey stepped off a Qatari tation of Islam unified their “The genuine manufactur- System for Substandard and The Taliban’s top political ranks and set them apart from er of Covishield (Serum Falsified Medical Products has leader, who made a triumphal the notoriously corrupt war- Institute of India Pvt. Ltd.) has unearthed these counterfeit return to Afghanistan this lords. Baradar fought alongside confirmed that the products vaccines. week, battled the US and its Mullah Omar as he led the listed in this alert are falsified. This is not the first time allies for decades but then OP Taliban through its seizure of These falsified products have that counterfeit Covid-19 vac- signed a landmark peace agree- power in 1996 and its return to been reported at the patient cines have been detected. The ment with the Trump admin- an insurgency following the level in Uganda and India,” the WHO earlier identified coun- istration. 2001 US-led invasion. WHO said. terfeit Pfizer-BioNTech Covid- Mullah Abdul Ghani Continued on Page 2 It said the products were 19 circulating in the USA. Baradar is now expected to play Related reports on P8 confirmed as falsified on the Continued on Page 2 P "# $ % ! 4/,35 L M &' he Taliban violently broke Tup a protest in eastern ! Afghanistan on Wednesday, & ' ' ings in the interregnum. # killing at least one person as He told the bench, also L M they quashed a rare public % comprising Justices Surya Kant # show of dissent. and Aniruddha Bose, that pub- &## ' The Taliban’s every action (! ! % ) lic notice has been issued by the in their sudden sweep to power Commission of Inquiry and is being watched closely. proceedings are taking place on They insist they have a day-to-day basis. ! ( ) *) changed and won’t impose the 6!2657 “We will see, wait”, the ( + , + & same draconian restrictions bench said and asked him to &- ## they did when they last ruled he Supreme Court on serve the copy of the petition - ### Afghanistan, all but eliminat- TWednesday refused to to the respondents. # & O - ing women’s rights, carrying # entertain a plea to set aside a 25. The counsel argued that / + out public executions and har- notification issued by the West Former Supreme Court the petition challenges the O bouring al-Qaida in the years Dozens of people gathered the Taliban firing into the air media and so he spoke on the Bengal Government to set up judge Justice Madan B Lokur notification, issued by the West ## ' before the 9/11 attacks. in the eastern city of Jalalabad and attacking people with condition of anonymity. a Commission of Inquiry to and former Chief Justice of Bengal Government last month But many Afghans remain to raise the national flag a day batons to disperse the crowd. Meanwhile, videos from probe the Pegasus snooping Calcutta High Court Justice appointing a Commission of deeply skeptical, and the violent before Afghanistan’s Babrak Amirzada, a reporter the Panjshir Valley north of allegations. However, the SC Jyotirmay Bhattacharya are the Inquiry to probe into the " # response to Wednesday’s Independence Day, which for a local news agency, said he Kabul, a stronghold of the issued notices to the Centre members of the Commission of snooping allegations, on the / # protest could only fuel their commemorates the end of and a TV cameraman from Northern Alliance militias that and West Bengal Government Inquiry announced by the ground of jurisdiction. - ( fears. Thousands are racing to British rule in 1919. another agency were beaten by allied with the US against the to respond to the plea chal- Bengal Government last “The problem is there is * the airport and borders to flee They lowered the Taliban the Taliban as they tried to Taliban in 2001, appear to lenging the legality of the month. some inconsistency in your / 01 the country. Many others are flag — a white banner with an cover the unrest. show potential opposition fig- commission. Advocate Saurabh Mishra, affidavit. You say you want *2 ! ' hiding inside their homes, fear- Islamic inscription — that the A local health official said ures gathering there. It’s in the A bench headed by Chief appearing for the petitioner, inquiry, at the same time you *2 # ful after prisons and armouries militants have raised in the at least one person was killed only province that hasn’t yet Justice NV Ramana issued told the bench that the are opposing the Commission ## were emptied during the insur- areas they captured. and six wounded. The official fallen to the Taliban. notices to them and posted the Commission of Inquiry should of Inquiry,” the bench said. # -# 3 gents’ blitz across the country. Video footage later showed was not authorised to speak to Continued on Page 2 matter for hearing on August not conduct further proceed- Continued on Page 2 ) 3 - ' *+& # ( ! ' % # ) , % R P 6!2657 % n a landmark ruling, the % ) ISupreme Court on Wednesday allowed women ' ) 6!2657 candidates to appear for the upcoming entrance examina- ' he Supreme Court made tion of the National Defence Thistory on Wednesday Academy (NDA). It will be for 6!2657 when its collegium recom- the first time that women can- mended names of as many as didates will do so in the histo- ore than seven years after three women High Court ry of the NDA, which was MSunanda Pushkar was judges for elevation to the SC. founded in 1954.