Prominent Education Center in Western Kabul Shuts Down Due to Security Threats

The Taliban have not yet responded to the former Afghan president’s call. According to Karzai’s press office, in the meeting with the Japanese ambassador at his residence in Kabul, they also exchanged views on the education of Afghan girls and the attack at the Kaj educational center.

In the meeting with the former Afghan president, Takashi expressed his condolences to the victims of the terrorist attack at the Kaj educational center.

According to the UN statistics, at least 53 people had been killed and more than 110 had been injured in the suicide attack on the Kaj educational center in western Kabul. Most of the victims in the attack had been female students.

The former president of Afghanistan has also urged the Taliban to reopen schools for female students across Afghanistan.

The organiser told Afghanistan international that they had taken permission to hold the demonstration in New Delhi.

The organisers said that it was still unclear as to why the police blocked their demonstration.

After the recent deadly attack at the Kaj educational center in the west of Kabul city, widespread protests have been held inside Afghanistan and outside the country.

Several human rights groups and civil society activists have launched a Twitter campaign with #StopHazaraGenocide hashtag. So far, this hashtag has been tweeted more than five million times.

Earlier in July 2022, Taliban forces had clashed with Uzbek border guards in Shortepa district of Balkh province.

According to the Taliban’s Ministry of Defense, the group’s 6th brigade command Mansoor Jawid and the commander of the border forces of Uzbekistan, met in Hairatan port.

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban forces have clashed with Iran, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan forces several times.

In one such case, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev confirmed that an Uzbek soldier had been killed during clashes on the border with Afghanistan.

Earlier this year, Islamic State-Khursan (IS-K) claimed to have launched a rocket attack on the Termez military facility in Uzbekistan from Afghanistan.

Afghanistan and Uzbekistan have a 137 kilometers joint borders.

Noor said that the two sides talked about religious extremism, the spread of threats of terrorism in the region, and the lack of governance in the Taliban-dominated areas.

Abdullah Qarluq, the deputy leader of the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan; and Rahmatullah Yarmel, the former governor of Zabul; were also present at the meeting.

Noor and Mohaqiq, have also participated in a conference organised by Al-Rafidain Center for Dialogue in Baghdad.

Noor, while addressing the conference, had said that the Taliban is not a legitimate group ruling the country and that the group has close ties with global terror groups.

Noor and Mohaqiq had met with Nouri al-Maliki, the former Prime Minister of Iraq.

The meeting of these anti-Taliban figures in Iraq takes place while several Iraqi religious leaders have recently said that the Taliban had been responsible for the killing of Shia community members in Afghanistan.

Two local residents told Afghanistan International that the families had been ordered to evacuate their homes on Tuesday, and at least 100 families have been displaced on Wednesday.

According to the sources, if these families do not leave the village within three days, "they will be forcibly evicted from their homes and they will not have the right to move out their belongings and clothes”.

A local resident told Afghanistan International that women, children, and men have fled to the fields and cannot even afford to buy a tent.

However, a Taliban official in Takhar denied issuing an evacuation order for the 400 families.

Nikzad Mohajim, the spokesperson of the Taliban governor in Takhar, said that a court will examine the documents held by the residents and newly-arrived groups who claimed to own the village and a decision will be taken.

Earlier, a Taliban delegation from Kabul was sent to Takhar province, which has reportedly returned with a report on the situation and submitted it to the Taliban Council of Ministers for a decision, but there have not been any updates about the Taliban’s leadership’s decision.

The conflict between residents and newly-arrived groups, which speak Pashto and Urdu languages, has been going on for several months in Khwaja Bahauddin district.

Local residents argue that these people, with the support of the Taliban, want to settle in Khwaja Bahauddin district and forcibly evict the indigenous people who have lived there for decades.