Zabihullah Mujahid, the main spokesman of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, says that a committee headed by Chief of Army Staff Fasihuddin Fitr has been formed to investigate the protests of the past few days in Badakhshan.
Zabihullah Mujahid said that some criminals attacked the government troops, which led to the unfortunate incident.
Zabihullah Mujahid said, “The committee has been tasked to conduct a full investigation into the incident and submit a full report to the Prime Minister’s Office.”
Residents of Darim district and Argo district of Badakhshan protested on Saturday after Taliban security forces moved into the districts to destroy poppy fields, following clashes with local residents. As a result, two civilians lost their lives. One person was killed in District Darim Gujab and the other in Argo.
According to the statement, Shamsuddin Shariat of this committee, Deputy Minister of Anti-Narcotics in the Ministry of Interior Abdul Haq Akhund, Deputy Director of General Directorate Rahmatullah Najeeb. Other members are Abdul Momin, head of intelligence and Ulama Council of Badakhshan.
On the other hand, Tolo News has quoted several political experts as saying that the caretaker government should consider the legitimate demands of the residents of Badakhshan and solve their challenges seriously.
Amanullah Hotaki, a political analyst, said: ‘As Afghans, we want the appointed commission to conduct a fair investigation and focus on what the people want.’
Syed Akbar Agha, another political analyst, said: ‘It will be good to hear from people there who are facing problems or have raised their voices about their problems.’
In an audio clip circulating on social media, the army chief called for the protests in Badakhshan to stop. Fasihuddin Fitrat said that his government is serious about destroying the poppy crop.
He said that the Islamic Emirate is determined not to allow these protests and will not allow anyone to engage in opium cultivation and drug trafficking operations.
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Faseehuddin, who himself belongs to Badakhshan, said that people should be seriously warned and stopped.
Fasihuddin Fitrat’s audio message published on online media said that ‘if the ongoing protest is not stopped, Taliban fighters and other units will be forced to be sent.’
After visiting the districts of Argo and Darim and talking to local leaders, members of the Crop Destruction Committee in Badakhshan Province say the case was not as reported in the media.
‘We spoke to the people, the scholars and the leaders, as some people had spread rumors in the media, here and there, nothing happened, the small problem has been solved, there is no problem in Ergo. And the people of these two districts had promised us that they would continue to destroy the poppy.
Abdul Mateen Qani, the spokesman for the Ministry of Interior in the Taliban government, had previously told the BBC that ‘when our forces went to the area to destroy the poppy crop, some people threw sticks and stones at them, injuring them. .’
However, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior denies that their forces entered the houses. He further said that in some areas, poppies were planted in the houses.
In videos released of people’s protest meeting in Dream district, a cleric complains about the Taliban destroying people’s farms and killing a disabled citizen. This religious scholar criticized the treatment of the local people by the Taliban
Called ‘cruel’.
The Taliban government has started a campaign to destroy poppies in different areas of Afghanistan for some time, but the World Bank said in a report that the ban on opium cultivation has caused a loss of 1.3 billion dollars in the income of Afghan farmers. It is equivalent to about 8% of the country’s GDP.
The World Bank says Afghanistan’s real GDP has fallen by 26 percent over the past two fiscal years, and the country’s economic outlook is uncertain and at risk of stagnation at least until 2025.
According to Independent Persian, Badakhshan’s largest population consists of Tajik citizens, and during the 20-year reign of the former non-Taliban regime, all governors who served in the province were Tajiks. However, in September last year, Kandahar-born Taliban commander Qari Muhammad Ayub Khalid arrived in Badakhshan as the first non-Tajik governor and took charge of the province’s affairs.
Taliban Chief of Staff Qari Fasihuddin Fitr and former air force commander and former governor of Taliban in Badakhshan Maulvi Amanuddin Mansoor are two Tajik commanders in the ranks of Taliban who belong to Badakhshan.
Since the return of the Taliban to power, there have been repeated tensions and armed clashes between the Taliban’s Tajik and Pashtun commanders in the northern provinces, particularly Badakhshan, Takhar, Baghlan and Panj Sher. An audio file of a Taliban commander of Tajik origin named Mullah Aziz in Baghlan surfaced on social media yesterday, in which he criticizes the group’s commanders. Mullah Aziz says in this video that the Pashtun Taliban humiliate the Tajiks on various pretexts and detain them.
However, the protests of the people in Badakhshan against the Taliban have also attracted the attention of many politicians and opponents. Amrullah Saleh, leader of the Green Process Organization, wrote in a statement published on X: ‘You remember I said that one day this wicked, bigoted and ignorant group will be crushed by the people. Congratulations on the spontaneous rebellion of Badakhshan.’
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2024-07-27 23:02:11