Senior Taliban leader and Deputy Minister of Foreign Minister Sher Muhammad Abbas Stanikzai has fled Kabul to join his family in Dubai. Multiple sources confirmed that the once high flying Stanikzai, who could have been the Foreign Minister, is afraid that he could be assassinated by the Pakistani spy agency Inter-State Intelligence (ISI), if he returned According to the sources, Stanikzai is accused of having “close” ties with Russia and links with India, by the radical, pro-Pakistan, Haqqani group members in the Taliban government. Stanikzai was educated at the Indian Military Academy. India’s first formal contact in August with the Taliban was with Stanikzai, who was then the head of the Taliban’s political office in Doha.
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