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New Delhi: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US Representative George Santos are the latest targets of a Taliban parody account on social media platform X that has been making headlines for posts ranging from dark humour to commentary on prominent geopolitical issues...
With a blue tick and 67,000 followers, it poses as the official spokesperson of the Taliban...
Earlier this week, the account challenged Israels claims about its war with Hamas the Palestinian militant group in control of the Gaza Strip since 2007 particularly its posting of a purported audio conversation between Hamas operatives, whose authenticity has been called into question by UK media house Channel 4...
Our government will give you $10 million if you stop lying for 20 minutes, the Taliban parody account posted in reply to Israels post about the purported Hamas operatives...
Closer home, the account, in a different stance, paid a surprising tribute to actor Amitabh Bachchan.Sharing an image of Bachchan, the account wrote that he was an honorary Afghan citizen and praised him as a masculine individual who was well-liked in Afghanistan..
