Khairullah Khairkhwa, the Taliban’s minister of information and culture, announced that the group will build museums in 34 provinces of Afghanistan to display the weapons used in their wars. Khairkhwa stressed that these museums will be built to “protect Jihadi values”.
Earlier in Balkh province, the Taliban officials had displayed barrels containing explosives, which had been used during the Taliban insurgency, for public viewing.
The Taliban used hand-made barrel bombs and suicide bombers as part of their bloody tactics against the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the foreign forces present in the country after 2001.
Human rights organisations have repeatedly criticised these attacks as the cause of massive civilian casualties in the past twenty years.
According to the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency, the minister of information and culture of this group called the use of various tools in this group's attacks in the past twenty years "values of Jihad" that should be placed in museums and displayed for the public in Afghanistan.
