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Hashemi told worshipers at the Soltania mosque, “We have a document that our friends in different areas forced Shia clerics to perform Eid prayers; they interrogated those who didn’t pray as the Taliban wanted.”

He added, "One of our clerics, Seyyed Qasim Zahedi, who is present here, was summoned by the brothers of the Islamic Emirate yesterday evening because he did not offer the [Eid] prayer."

Hashemi stressed that Shia believers have minor differences with the Sunni followers of Islam and the Taliban must respect it.

Hashemi also said that Shia community members held Eid prayers in Mazar-i-Sharif, Kabul, and Herat on Saturday.

The Supreme Court of the Taliban announced on Thursday evening that Friday is Eid al-Fitr, but most Shia did not celebrate Eid on Friday.

There were reports from various parts of Afghanistan on Friday that the Taliban forced Shia Muslims to break their fast or participate in Eid prayers.

Mehdi Rasakh, a former member of the Afghan House of Representatives, said that the Taliban set up checkpoints in Nili city, the capital of Daikundi province, to force people to break their fast on Friday.

The former MP added, "The shopkeepers of Nili Bazaar were forcibly taken to the headquarters of the brigade by Haji Rashid, the commander of the Taliban brigade, and all of them were forced to drink water and break their fast."

Rasikh criticised the Taliban and said that the group has targeted religious beliefs, culture, and most private issues of the people and abolished religious diversity.

Earlier, the Taliban officials in Balkh had ordered the Shia community members in the province to celebrate Eid according to the fatwa of the Taliban leaders.

The Supreme Court of the Taliban announced on Tuesday that the head of the Taliban court for Balkh province has conveyed this message to the Shia community representatives.

Shia-Hazara communities of Afghanistan usually follow their religious leaders and celebrate religious ceremonies including Eid, sometimes a day apart from Sunni Hanafi citizens of Afghanistan.

Taliban announced Eid in Afghanistan on Friday, but it seems that most Shiites celebrate Eid on Saturday.

Earlier, Amina Mohammed, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, expressed hope that in the upcoming meeting of the UN Secretary-General with the special envoys of various countries, initial steps for recognition of the Taliban will be discussed.

The statement of Mohammed has been met with wide-ranging reactions from political groups, activists, and Afghan women.

The political and military groups opposed to the Taliban have also called any discussion on the recognition of the Taliban a "betrayal of the Afghan people".

Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission asked Amina Mohammed to apologise to the people of Afghanistan for her recent remarks about the recognition of the Taliban.

The meeting of the Secretary General of the United Nations with the special representatives of countries for Afghanistan is scheduled to be held in Doha on May 1 and 2.

The UN spokesperson has also said that the meeting will not be focused on the international recognition of the Taliban.

In recent years, due to differences among the senior leaders of the Jamiat-e-Islami Party, Noor established a splinter group.

Noor also asked other political forces opposing the Taliban to stand together to save Afghanistan.

In an Eid message, Noor said that over the past two years, "the cruel and ignorant Taliban has taken away people's happiness”.

He emphasised that the Taliban have deprived Afghan citizens of democratic governance and fundamental rights, eliminated political groups, and tortured and killed former security forces.

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, several Afghan political leaders established the National Resistance Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan. They include Atta Mohammad Noor, Mohammad Ismail Khan, Yunos Qanooni, Ahmad Massoud, and Salahuddin Rabbani.

However, AFF and NRF in separate statements emphasised that currently, they are not in favour of engagement with the Taliban.

The two military anti-Taliban fronts have also condemned the statement of the UN deputy secretary general about the recognition of the Taliban.

NRF said, "Lobbying for the Taliban is a futile task and against the interests of the people of Afghanistan.”

According to NRF, "The path to freedom and the return of peace to Afghanistan will come from standing up, fighting and sacrificing, not from engaging [and] dealings with the Taliban."

The Afghanistan Liberation Front, which has lost seven of its prominent forces in a recent clash with the Taliban, has said that political talks with the Taliban have no results and considers "armed struggles against the group as the most effective solution”.