Pak Islamic Scholar Speaking About RSS Revived As Taliban Chief Secretary

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The same video was earlier viral in September, 2021; BOOM had then spoken to the person seen in the video, whom we were able to identify as Islamabad based Islamic scholar Khalid Mehmood Abbasi. Abbasi had denied any connection with the Taliban militia. We ran a reverse image search on the keyframes of the video which led us to a YouTube channel “Khalid Mehmood Abbasi Official”. The viral video is part of an extended video of 17 minutes which was uploaded on August 3, 2021. The title of the video reads, "Hindustan Mae Bigarte Halat - Khalid Mehmood Abbasi." Starting from 51 second mark to 1 minute 23 second mark, Abbasi can be heard speaking about the connection between the BJP and RSS. The speech from the viral video was delivered in February 2019 at Rawalpindi, days after the Balakot airstrike by India; the same was confirmed by Abbasi.