NEVER," Amrullah Saleh wrote in English on Twitter, before going undergroundAfghanistan's defiant vice president Amrullah Saleh said on August 17 he is “the legitimate caretaker President” after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The hardliners then tortured his sister in their bid to hunt him down, Mr. Saleh has said. "My view of the Taliban changed forever because of what happened in 1996," Mr. Saleh wrote in a Time magazine editorial last year. The intelligence Mr. Saleh gathered provided what he alleged was proof the Pakistani military continued to back the Taliban. Within hours of the attack, Mr. Saleh appeared in a video with his left hand bandaged, promising to fight back.

Source: The Hindu August 17, 2021 12:14 UTC