Taliban Commits War Crimes in Northern Afghanistan, Says NRF

The OIC’s Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) is scheduled to be held for three days in October in Türkiye.

COMCEC is one of the specialised committees of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which was established in 1981 with the approval of the OIC memebers.

Turkiye is the chair and host of the COMCEC annual meetings.

COMCEC works to address the economic challenges and support the development of Islamic countries. The Taliban hope to receive support of COMCEC for Afghanistan’s economic development.

According to the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency, representatives of the Ministries of Finance, Industry and Trade, Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, information and culture, Telecommunications and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Transportation of the Taliban participated in the meeting of COMCEC on Thursday.

In the meeting, economic projects in trade, transportation, communication, poverty reduction, tourism, agriculture, and financial cooperation sectors have been discussed.

Hazara activists launched a Twitter campaign on October 3 with the #StopHazaraGenocide hashtag. The campaign had been started by Hazara rights activists after a suicide attack on an educational center on September 30 in western Kabul.

Supporters of the campaign have urged the international community to recognize that a genocide is currently underway against the Hazara Shia community in Afghanistan.

So far, many politicians, rights activists, artists and members of the Hazara ethnic community have joined the Twitter campaign.

Along with Afghan artists, politicians, and cultural activists, well-known figures such as Elif Shafaq, the well-known Turkish-British novelist have joined the campaign to call for a stop to the genocide of Hazara community in Afghanistan.

The Twitter campaign supporters believe that Hazaras of Afghanistan have been systematically targeted and are facing genocidal killings.

In recent years, attacks on Hazaras, especially on their educational centers, have increased. Islamic State-Khurasan has taken responsibility for most of the attacks.

According to Dehzad, during the five years of operations at Rahe Danishgah, they have witnessed several attacks on educational institutes in Kabul.

He mentioned the deadly attacks on Mawud Educational Center; Kawsar-e-Danesh Center; Seyyed al-Shuhada High School, and Kaaj Educational School, which killed and injured hundreds of young Hazara Shia teenagers.

Dehzad added that with each passing day, the number of students participating at these centers has decreased due to security threats and because the atmosphere of fear and intimidation has been increasing.

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.