An image of a girl in a red trouser suit is being circulated on social networks with the caption that this is the daughter of the head of the Taliban, who lives in Switzerland and walks around with her face open. This collage is usually accompanied by a caption about the hypocrisy of Taliban leaders who oppose women's education and Western clothing. We decided to check whether social network users are correct in their statements.
The image can be found in Facebook, "VKontakte», Twitter and on various entertaining websites. The collage is distributed not only in the Russian-speaking segment; there is such a photograph with a caption on Persian And French languages. With the caveat that the information is unverified, photograph published politician Gennady Gudkov.
To date, there is no single elected or appointed leader of the movement. As the leadership of the Taliban (an organization recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation), it is usually are considering five people. Haibatullah Akhundzada is the supreme commander of the Taliban, his three deputies are Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mohammad Yaqub and Sirajuddin Haqqani, and senior judge Abdul Hakim. Mohammad Yaqub is the son of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the previous leader of the movement. There are no reliable photographs of him in the public domain, however known, that he is about 30 years old, therefore, he cannot be the father of the girl depicted in the photograph. None of the remaining four politicians resemble the man in the collage.
Google Image Search defines the man in the photograph is Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai. He takes position of representative of the Qatari political office, previously under the Taliban government he was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Health. Stanikzai also headed Taliban delegation during their visit to Moscow.
There is no reliable information about the composition of his family and children in open sources, but information that his daughter is studying abroad appeared in May 2019. Twitter user Rozina Sediqi, who states on her profile that she is a former employee of ToloNews and 1TV-Af (major media in Afghanistan), May 14 posted a photograph of a girl in clothes similar to a master's robe, with the caption that this is the daughter of a politician. In the discussion of the tweet, the author of the statement did not respond to a single comment from users who asked to indicate the source or provide any evidence. Even earlier, on May 13, on Facebook there was published a post with the same photo, which stated that Stanikzai’s daughter’s name is Fatima and she is studying at the American University in Dubai. IN publications 2021 with the same photo it is already claimed that she received her MBA from Columbia Business School.
At the same time, an image of another girl appeared in the discussion thread - allegedly this is the real daughter of Abbas Stanikzai. All three photographs depict different people.
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Collage with a girl in a red suit spread no later than January 30, 2021, when the video with it was uploaded to the YouTube video hosting service. Moreover, the video sequence consists of two photographs - it also contains appears A photo from the wedding of Pakistan People's Party chairman Bilawal Zardari's sister, Bakhtawar, and Mahmood Chaudhry, an industrialist from Dubai.
And in February 2021, a photograph of a girl in a red suit appeared in Persian with a story (translated via Google Translate) that Stanikzai's daughter's name is Shirin and in 2010 she was arrested in Dubai for drug use and homosexual practices.
At the same time, the girl in the red trouser suit is not identified by face search tools, nor is the one in the master's robe. But the girl in the pink dress is searched by Yandex determined like Indian actress Megha Chowdhury. The girl has a verified page in Instagram, the photos in which actually match the image from the collage. On sites about cinema succeeded discover her father's name - Debasish Chowdhury, and on Instagram some her photos with my father. The man in them is definitely not Abbas Stanikzai.
The portrayal of Megha as Abbas Stanikzai's daughter has become so popular that "daughters" even came up with name - Mamalai.
Also in 2019, when an image of Stanikzai's possible daughter in a master's robe appeared, information about his daughter's wedding also circulated on social networks. July 22 user Habiba Ashna posted photo from the celebration.
Google Image Search found more two The same images, captions to the photographs also talked about the daughter’s wedding, and on one of the pages we were able to find photographs of Abbas Stanikzai himself and his son-in-law Abdullah - although not in the same frame. At the same time, the photo of Stanikzai published in the post using a reverse image search on Google located in the material dated February 12, 2019, which means it was definitely not taken at the wedding in July. So, with a high degree of probability, we can assume that photographs from the wedding may also be an online fake. In addition, not a single photograph contains an image of the bride, so it is impossible to compare it with photographs of other girls.
Also in May 2021 spread information about the marriage of Stanikzai’s second daughter, Asia. The girl in the photo is not dressed according to the canons of religion. The description of the photo says that she married the Mufti of Pakistan Taqi Lahore, who is nine years younger than her, becoming his fourth wife.
الحديث پاكستاني با دختر دوم عباس استانکزی استانکزی كه با وي ٢٥ سال تفاوت سني دارد ازدواج نمود. قابل ذكر است كه مفتي ٣ زن ديگر هم دارد و صاحب ٢٢ فرزند است . pic.twitter.com/VCTP6LCSBm
— Freshta Mazari (@FreshtaMazari7) May 22, 2021
However, these photos are fake. on them depicted a married couple living in Virginia (USA), Amir Khan and his wife Rabia Liaquat, are from Lahore (Pakistan), who is not a relative of Abbas Stanikzai. Pair assumesthat these photographs of them were distributed by someone close to them, perhaps for the purpose of revenge. Amir Khan is not a mufti, but a real estate specialist; Rabia is indeed his fourth wife, while the man is divorced from the previous three. The couple even had to write down video to refute all incorrect facts about yourself.
Thus, the man in the collage is not the leader of the Taliban, but a representative of the Qatari political office. The girl in the pink dress is definitely not his daughter, but an Indian actress. The married couple, whose photo is passed off as an image of Stanikzai’s second daughter and her husband, lives in the United States and has no relation to the Taliban. It was not possible to establish the identity of the girl in the red suit and in the master's robe, as well as their real names. Most likely, these are photographs of random Internet users.
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