Arbitrary Killings, Torture & Arrests Resume In Afghanistan, Says UN Human Rights Chief

In an interview with Afghanistan International, Kay said that Afghanistan will witness another tumultuous change.

On Monday, Kay mentioned the reasons which portray how vulnerable, fragile and isolated the Taliban is.

He said that before the Taliban assumes that they will remain in power forever, they should look at history, the Afghan people and other regional stakeholders.

This former British ambassador pointed to the history of Afghanistan over the last fifty years which has experienced at least seven different regimes.

He said that this historical evidence shows that Afghanistan is about to witness another tumultuous change.

Kay pointed to the political isolation of the Taliban by the international community; internal differences among the group; tense relations with neighbouring countries, especially Pakistan; severe decline in international aid and the lack of an inclusive government, which, according to him, has alarmed the group.

This former British official said that so far, no country has recognised the Taliban and the group is vulnerable due to the international isolation.

He said that the weaknesses of the Taliban can lead to an uprising and rebellion inside Afghanistan.

Mehsud is believed to be the TTP leader Noor Wali Mehsud's "right-hand man" and confidant.

However, Afghanistan International's sources did not mention who targeted Mehsud.

So far, there is no information about his health condition.

TTP has not officially confirmed or denied attack on Mehsud or his injury.

She asked the countries of the world to stick to their current agreement regarding the policies of the Taliban.

She added that normalisation of relations with the group should depend on the change in their behaviour in Afghanistan.

Addressing a UN Human Rights Council session, Taylor, like representatives from various countries, expressed support for the statement of Richard Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan.

At the 54th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, Bennett said that Taliban's policies against women are "cruel and misogynistic". He added that Taliban "systematically" violates and restricts the rights of women and girls.

In her statement, Taylor said that the Taliban are trying to completely remove women from the public sphere. She reiterated once again that the US and the international community will not recognise Taliban regime until it changes its extremist policies.

She also asked the representatives of other governments to maintain their unity against the Taliban and ask the group to change its policies against women and other layers of the Afghan society.

Without naming the Taliban, Taylor said that the existing reports about the killing and torture of the former Afghan government employees are valid and expressed concern about it.

The Taliban has denied the human rights organisations’ reports regarding the killing and torture of former security forces members in Afghanistan.

Begec said that these restrictions are against the will of the Afghan people.

He added that Turkiye expresses solidarity with the Afghan people, especially Afghan women and girls.

While expressing concern over the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, Begec said that 28 million people are in dire need of humanitarian aid.

"Millions of [Afghan] children go to bed hungry every night," he said at the UN Human Rights Council meeting.

He added that Ankara is trying to promote human rights through interaction [with the Taliban] and find ways for the economic and social participation of the people in Afghanistan.

Education activist Ziauddin Yousafzai had travelled to Germany on Monday to support the demands of Paryani for the recognition of Taliban’s gender apartheid.

They called the restrictions on women in Afghanistan imposed by the Taliban "an extreme version of apartheid”.

Yousafzai said, "I think there are distinctions between Afghanistan’s and Africa’s experience of apartheid, because what was imposed to women in Afghanistan has been more severe than what was imposed on coloured people in Africa."

Toor Pekai Yousafzai, Malala's mother, also asked the international community to support the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, especially their right to education.

Previously, Yousafzai had supported the protest of Paryani and other Afghan human rights activists using the two hashtags, "Stop gender apartheid in Afghanistan" and "Let Afghan girls get an education".

Paryani has been on a hunger strike since Friday, September 1, demanding recognition of the "gender apartheid" in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

In this protest, a number of human rights activists from Afghanistan and Iran also joined Paryani.

Meanwhile, Berivan Aymaz, vice-president of State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia visited Paryani at her sit-in tent in Cologne. She asked Paryani to end the hunger strike and invited her to speak in the state parliament.

Also, Paryani confirmed to Afghanistan International that Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Afghanistan, also spoke to her on the phone.

On the other hand, Schahina Gambir, a member of the German Parliament, described Paryani’s hunger strike as a "drastic protest tool".

This representative of the Green Party in the German Bundestag said that the choice of such drastic form of protest shows how desperate the situation of women in Afghanistan is.