New Delhi: With the withdrawal of the Taliban in Afghanistan, there is an atmosphere of concern in the world. You can guess how bad the situation here is that people are running away from the country. The Taliban’s top leadership is in power in Afghanistan. The implementation of Sharia law in the country has also been announced. Amidst all this, the big news has come out about Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, one of the top 7 leaders of the Taliban. Want to tell you that he was once a cadet of the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun. His friends used to affectionately call him Sheru.
It is to be known that Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai was 20 years old when Bhagat was in the Karen Company of Battalion in Dehradun IMA. By the way, foreign cadets have been getting entry into IMA since independence. This facility is given to Afghan cadets since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. This is the reason Sheru came to Dehradun IMA through direct recruitment from Afghan National Security and Security Forces.
It may be noted that Taliban commander Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai completed pre-commission training in 1.5 years at IMA. He then joined the Afghan National Army as a lieutenant. But after some time Soviet Russia occupied Afghanistan. In 1996, he left the army and went to the Taliban’s refuge. Now with the situation changing, Stanikzai’s friends suggest that he may prove to be a key figure in talks with the Taliban.
