Who is telling the truth, Rahmon or the Taliban?

The Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi stated that the “Taliban” has no issues with Afghanistan’s neighbors, especially Tajikistan, and that everything published in the media is merely negative coverage of events.

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Earlier this year, a video was published on social media where the former Taliban spokesman and one of the founders of the movement Mullah Abdulmanon Niyazi stated that Rahmon’s government is a partner of the Taliban movement. He said:

“We have opened a representative office in Kazakhstan and another one in Tajikistan. With the support of Tajikistan, a native of Kandahar, Haji Fazl Muhammad, and another person named Haji Ibrahim opened a Taliban representative office in Tajikistan. All the opportunities and funding provided by Russia for the war against the Americans were given (to the Taliban) through Tajikistan.”

The Afghan government led by Muhammad Ashraf Ghani fell in Kabul on August 15, and on the same day, Ghani fled Afghanistan. Also on that day, the Taliban took over the Afghan presidential palace and announced that the Islamic Emirate would fully control Afghanistan from then on.

Despite this, the Tajik embassy in Afghanistan did not suspend its activities, and President Emomali Rahmon, who claims not to recognize the Taliban government, has still not recalled the Tajik ambassador to Afghanistan. On the contrary, trade and economic cooperation between the two countries continues.