Taliban Reaches Agreement With Pakistan To Relocate TTP Members to Northern Afghanistan

According to the photos received by Afghanistan International from this gathering, protestors carried slogans against “forced marriage” and “mandatory hijab”, imposed by the group.

One of the protestors told Afghanistan International that the Taliban tortured and beat up women publicly in several cases due to not having a “burqa” according to the group’s order.

In this closed space with the flag of the previous government in the background, the female protesters asked the international community not to recognise the Taliban’s government.

According to them, recognising the Taliban will mean “burying alive” women in Afghanistan.

Taliban officials haven’t reacted to this protest yet.

The Taliban have imposed a ban on women’s education and work and ordered that women don’t have the right to visit restaurants, parks, cinemas, gyms, and public baths across Afghanistan. The Taliban has also ordered Afghan women not to leave the house with a male guardian.

Aghbar in a tweet wrote, “Taliban should know that buildings may fall, but the spirit of resistance against oppression and terrorism is resolute and unshakable.”

Posting a photo of his house and some of the local elders in Panjshir on Twitter, he said that the house has been a heritage structure from his father’s ear and 25 years ago, with the cooperation of local residents of Panjshir, he had reconstructed the house.

Taliban have been using this house as a military base and set it on fire for unknown reasons. Months earlier, the Taliban set fire to the house of Fazal Ahmad Manawi, former Minister of Justice of Afghanistan, in Panjshir.

Zahir Aghbar and Fazal Ahmad Manawi are supporters of the National Resistance Front led by Ahmad Massoud.

He said that these refugees were living illegally and have been deported and handed over to the Taliban through the Dowqarun border.

Quoting this border guard commander, IRNA News Agency reported, “In the past two weeks, border guards of Taybad regiment deported and handed over these Afghan refugees who have been living illegally or who had been arrested while trying to enter the country illegally, to the Taliban through the Dowqarun border”.

With the takeover of power by the Taliban in August 2021, a significant number of Afghans migrated to neighbouring countries, including Iran. However, the Iranian government has arrested many of them and deported them to Afghanistan. In May, 12,500 Afghan refugees had also been deported.

On Monday, Momeni added that Afghanistan ranks top in drug production and second in industrial drugs production in the world.

Momeni said that despite the promises of the Taliban to counter narcotics, the cultivation and production of drugs have increased in Afghanistan.

He added, "The Islamic Republic of Iran has the highest rank of countering drug smuggling in the world. According to official statistics, Iran discovers 90% of opium, 50% of morphine, and 27% of heroin discoveries in the world.”

Momeni also announced a tenfold increase in the elimination of the economic foundations of drug traffickers in Iran.

These statements were made by the Secretary General of Iran's Drug Control Headquarters during a meeting that was held on Monday in the presence of directors and secretaries of the Drugs Control Coordination Council of Iran.

The women’s rights group in a statement said that the Taliban has deep ties with terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS.

The Afghan women movement on Sunday added that the Taliban has taken Afghan people hostage and emphasised that the group has the same thoughts, and behaviour as during their first rule in Afghanistan in the 1990s.

The Women’s Movement for Peace and Freedom consists of female activists who stand against the Taliban by holding protests and taking public stances.

The women’s rights movement has welcomed the report of the UN Security Council's monitoring committee about the Taliban.

According to the new report, the relationship between the Taliban and the Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) remains strong and the threat of terrorism in Afghanistan and the region has been increasing.

The Taliban has rejected the UN report as biased.

However, the Women's Movement for Peace and Freedom emphasised that along with the group’s ties to terrorist networks, the Taliban has increased forced and underage marriages, spread violence, and has taken millions of men and women hostage in Afghanistan.

The movement has also stressed that the Taliban has been suppressing religious minorities like in the 1990s.

The Women's Movement for Peace and Freedom has accused the Taliban of committing "war crimes" by referring to the reports of international organisations, including Amnesty International.

Expressing concern over the continuation of the humanitarian, security, and economic crisis in Afghanistan, the movement has urged the United Nations and the international community to take immediate action and, among other things, impose more sanctions against the Taliban.