Thread by @AfghanAnalyst2

In his speech in Khost Province, the Taliban's deputy leader& acting minister of interior Khalifa Sirajuddin Haqqani said that "Today, when we are assigned to this service (leading the government), we should see it as a responsibility. We should not make out of 20 years of our... twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

...#Jihad, a #Mafia, to take privileges from it. These conditions are not tolerable. If yesterday I had one responsibility, today have other. My responsibility today is to bring people closer to me and look at their shortcomings with a reformative view and cover up their wounds."

As part of self-criticism, Khalifa Sirajuddin Haqqani said that we (Taliban's leadership) are such arrogant that "challenging, exclusivity and defamation of the entire system (Islamic Emirate) is now our initiative and opinion".
His remarks reflect the dissatisfication of the ...

...majority of the Taliban's leadership with the decisions and policies of the supreme leader and his small circle of hardliner friends, who lead the regime towards more isolation and failure.

The Taliban No.2, Sirajuddin Haqqani:
"Despite the knowledge we have& despite the efforts we made in this way, we should not behave/act in such a way that people hate #religion. If they hate us personally, there is no problem, but the address that we represent must be respected." twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Ex-ambassador of Tehran to Kabul:
"Sirajuddin Haqqani's recent criticism of the #Taliban's governance is a sign of the internal power struggle between the group's senior officials.
It seems that making this criticism public is aimed at creating a kind of deterrence against the...

...Taliban supreme leader's desire to develop influence in all affairs of the group, especially following the recent order related to the @MOPVPE1."