Taliban hoist giant flag in symbolic rite

By Associated Press

Apr 02, 2022 12:41 am

KABUL, Afghanistan: The Taliban raised a giant white flag of their movement on a hill overlooking the Afghan capital Thursday (Friday in Manila) in a ceremony held nearly eight months after they returned to power.

Several hundred Taliban, many armed, attended the ceremony presided over by Abdul Salam Hanafi, a deputy prime minister, on the hill in Wazir Akbar Khan, near the mostly deserted diplomatic enclave in Kabul.

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