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In a statement, AFF said that the Taliban is changing the demographic structure of northern Afghanistan and facilitating long-lasting extremism and terrorism in the geography.

On June 12, reliable sources in the Taliban government confirmed for the first time that the group has reached an agreement with Pakistan to relocate members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in parts of Afghanistan, including in the north of the country.

A source told Afghanistan International that this decision has been taken by the Taliban and Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI).

On Thursday, Afghanistan Freedom Front stressed that to serve Pakistan, the Taliban in Kabul are destroying the ground for compatibility and peaceful living of different ethnicities in Afghanistan.

TTP is an insurgent and militant group in Pakistan that mobilises thousands of fighters from tribal areas to carry out attacks against the Pakistani government. TTP and the Taliban in Afghanistan have a close relationship.

Recently, Pakistan’s Institute of Peace in a report wrote that terrorist attacks increased 73 percent in Pakistan after the takeover of power by Taliban in Afghanistan. TTP and Baluchistan Liberation Army have taken responsibility for most of the attacks.

AFF warned that transferring Pakistani Taliban members to the north of Afghanistan is not only dangerous and catastrophic for the country and region, but also for the peace and security of the world.

This front said that the Taliban have not cut their structural ties with Al-Qaeda and parts of ISIS-K and even with the relocation of groups such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement, Jamaat-e- Ansarullah and other terrorist groups in the north, northeast, and northwest of Afghanistan, they have practically started a new phase of hosting its like-minded terror groups.

Earlier, the Council of National Resistance for the Salvation of Afghanistan too reacted to the reports of the relocation of TTP militias in the north of Afghanistan, saying that this would make Afghanistan face deep risks of internal and external crisis that could slide to the partition of the country.

According to RTL News, De Moor said that the process of seeking asylum is for protecting people from war and torture, not for those who promote violence.

Jamil Qaderi, an Afghan youtuber who has been living in Belgium since 2010 and had been granted asylum in the country two years ago, produces content that praises the Taliban.

He argues that the Taliban’s government is good for the people of Afghanistan because it provided security for the country.

Belgian officials reacted to this Afghan youtuber after around 8,000 people demanded Jamil Qaderi's deportation from Belgium in an online petition.

Those who signed the petition accused Qaderi of publicly supporting a terrorist group.

He said that in addition to religious studies, modern sciences should also be added to the seminary curriculum so that graduates of jihadi madrassas are able to work in such offices.

Mawlawi Abdul Kabir admitted to the shortcoming of seminaries in Afghanistan even though the Taliban has appointed mullahs with religious education to senior executive and technical positions of the group’s government.

According to the office of the Taliban’s prime minister, on Wednesday, Mawlawi Abdul Kabir met with Abdul Wahid Tariq, director of the jihadi seminaries. Tariq presented the programmes for establishing “jihadi madrassas in every province of Afghanistan” to the Taliban prime minister.

Tariq stressed that his directorate has been able to establish “jihadi madrassas in five provinces of Afghanistan and enrolled Taliban [members] as students of these seminaries”.

Abdul Kabir considered that the Taliban must pay attention to jihadi madrassas and said that seminaries are the “need of the day” in Afghanistan.

After the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban on August 2021, the group started establishing religious madrassas extensively across Afghanistan.

To expand their madrassas, the group has converted educational and historical places into jihadi madrassas too. In one of their latest moves, the Taliban established a jihadi school in the historic building and museum of Siraj-ul-Emarat.

Earlier, the Taliban changed buildings of the teacher training center of Samangan, the technical and vocational institute of Takhar, Mitra TV in Mazar-e-Sharif, Abdul Hai high school of Khost province, technical high school of Kandahar, Babrak Khan Zadran high school in Gardiz city and many other such centers to jihadi madrassas.

The Qom province organised a conference on the same topic for Afghan refugees and sought their cooperation in promoting the mandatory hijab law.

According to Iran's state television, the authorities of Qom province asked the heads of 220 delegations of Afghan refugees in this province to "take more active steps on the issue of hijab”.

Following the death of Iranian university student, Mahsa Amini, on the issue of the Hijab by Iranian law morality police, and the recent nationwide protests of the Iranian people against the Islamic Republic and the mandatory hijab, non-observance of this law by Iranian women has increased. The authorities of Iran have admitted that the issue of hijab has become an important challenge for the Islamic Republic.

On Sunday, 100 Afghan prisoners were handed over to the Taliban at the Nimroz border.

Ahmad Zia Takal, Deputy Spokesperson of the Taliban's Foreign Ministry, said that after the group's agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1,113 prisoners have been transferred to Afghanistan.

Taliban and Islamic Republic officials have not discussed the charges of these prisoners.