Taliban Publicly Flogs Woman in Faryab

Zabihullah Mujahid said that ISIS-K has training centres in these provinces of Pakistan.

Mujahid said in a statement on Monday, that the group's special unit arrested the perpetrators of the attack on the employees of the General Directorate of Prosecution and Supervision of Orders and Judgments (formerly the Prosecutor's Office) by launching operations in Kabul and Nangarhar.

"After ISIS was eliminated by special units," Mujahid said, the group's leaders and remaining members of ISIS-K were transferred to Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa "with the help of some intelligence agencies", where they have training centres.

The Taliban spokesman said that ISIS-K "carries out attacks from these new centres both in Afghanistan and other countries, as well as target religious scholars and members of religious, and political groups in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and in some cases, use them for their sinister purposes”.

Previously, Pakistan has always accused the Taliban government of harbouring terrorist groups such as ISIS and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), but this time the Taliban has accused Pakistan.

The Taliban spokesman's statement said that the detained ISIS members were also involved in other attacks, including attacks on foreign tourists in Bamiyan. Among them was a Tajik citizen who was planning a suicide attack, the statement said.

The Taliban spokesman said that the group's forces also killed two ISIS members in Faryab and Kabul.

In an exclusive interview with Afghanistan International, he said that Pakistani Taliban leaders live in Kabul.

Asif Durrani stated that the Taliban is unfamiliar with the principles of diplomacy and therefore, do not respect diplomatic norms.

Durrani noted that he repeatedly called on the Taliban to open girls' schools, but Taliban officials said that they must first organise their government and only then, will they reopen the schools.

He also clarified that Taliban officials have not denied the presence of the TTP in Afghanistan, but have stated that they are managing the group.

Durrani stated that the Taliban has said that TTP members will be transferred to the central regions of Afghanistan.

The TTP is mainly based in provinces bordering Pakistan, such as Nangarhar, Kunar, Khost, Paktia and Paktika.

The former Pakistani representative added that half of the TTP members are in Pakistan and nearly 6,000 in Afghanistan, and the group's leadership lives in Kabul.
Durrani also said that some TTP forces are active in Khost province and the border areas of the two countries.

He called on the Taliban to hand over the TTP members to Islamabad so that they can be treated according to the laws of this country.

After the Taliban's return to power, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has taken on a new lease of life. In the past two years, the group's attacks have increased by nearly 70 percent.

The group has carried out sophisticated attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan on the Pakistani army and security institutions, killing and wounding dozens of Pakistani troops.

They claimed that the arrest was due to disputes between the Nangarhar court and the Taliban's Interior Ministry.

Shapoor Hasanzoy's family members contacted Afghanistan International and said that the Taliban's deputy interior minister had previously sent a letter to Shapoor Hasanzoy regarding a legal issue related to a house in Nangarhar.

According to them, Shapoor Hasanzoy took the letter to the Nangarhar Police Command and Nangarhar police evacuated the house.

"After the house was vacated, the head of the Taliban court in Nangarhar summoned Shapoor Hasanzoy to his office and sent him to prison without any charges," said a family member of Hasanzoy.

The MP’s family also said that Abdul Shakoor, the head of the Taliban's court in Nangarhar, told Hasanzoy that he should have complained to the group's court in Nangarhar about the legal issue of the house instead of the Ministry of Interior Affairs.

The family also acknowledged that the head of the Taliban's court in Nangarhar had warned that the group's Interior Ministry had no right to write to Hasanzoy about a legal issue.

However, Shapoor Hasanzoy's family members noted that he was a victim of the Taliban's administrative dissent and internal conflicts, and called on the group to release him.

Hasanzoy, a lawmaker for the people of Logar in the former Afghan parliament, took refuge abroad after the fall of the government and the Taliban's takeover, but after a while, he returned to the country with the cooperation of the Taliban's "Commission for Contact with Afghan Personalities”. After a while, he regretted returning to Afghanistan and stated in an interview with local media that the Taliban had deceived him and had not fulfilled his promises.

According to them, Kohistani has a heart disease and must take medication daily.

According to sources, the Taliban's intelligence agency arrested Jawed Kohistani from the Sara e Shamali area of Kabul on Thursday, September 26. The Taliban have not yet officially commented on the matter.

Two days after the arrest of Jawed Kohistani, some of his friends and relatives told Afghanistan International on Saturday that despite efforts and follow-up, they have not yet been able to find out about his health and detention status.

Relatives of Kohistani said that some Taliban officials have confirmed his arrest by the group's intelligence, but have not commented on his whereabouts. They added that he had previously undergone heart surgery at a hospital in Pakistan and has to take medication several times a day.

Friends and relatives of Jawed Kohistani also added that he has not had any political-military activities for at least the past three years and preferred to remain in the country after the fall of the government.

According to people close to Kohistani, the conditions of the Taliban's intelligence prisons and their interrogation method are dangerous for a heart patient who cannot take medication.

Kohistani is a well-known political analyst who appeared in many debates in the domestic media in the past two decades before the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. He is a critic of the former government and one of the few who did not leave Afghanistan after the Taliban entered Kabul in August 2021.

The Taliban's Minister of Mines, Hidayatullah Badri, also went to Moscow to attend the meeting.

In a photo published by Bakhtar News Agency on Friday, September 28, the faces and bodies of the four women participating in the ceremony were censored.

This comes as the Taliban's Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has published the presence of the group's representatives at the Russian International Energy Summit with uncensored photos.

The meeting was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and representatives of at least 50 other countries.

Earlier, Taliban media had censored the faces of the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson; Nazgul Usenova, Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Minister of Energy, and Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary-General's Representative for Afghanistan.

The Taliban have considered women's voices to be awrah (intimate) and have made their dress code compulsory. The group has also banned the publication of human images in some provinces.