Taliban Violently Breaks Up Kabul Protest Led by Women
The Taliban violently broke up a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, led by women on Tuesday.
The protesters marched peacefully through the capital in response to Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed — the head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency — being present in the city to discuss the formation of a new Taliban-led administration, according to The Wall Street Journal.
They shouted “Death to Pakistan” as they marched, while also expressing support for the Panjshir province’s resistance against the Taliban.
Bazarak, the province’s capital, fell to the Taliban on Monday.
The protest was not met with any interference from Taliban fighters until it reached the city’s central Shahr-e-Naw neighborhood, according to the Journal.
The Taliban then began to beat the protesters with batons and whips and fired bullets into the air.
There were reportedly no casualties, but bullets smashed the windows of a nearby hotel as some Taliban fighters failed to control their muzzles.
Several protesters were forced into the basement of a bank, while more were detained.
“We must continue our protest against dirty Pakistan, which is interfering in Afghanistan. Why is Pakistan not being sanctioned?” a women’s rights activist and organizer of the protest told the Wall Street Journal by phone from the bank’s basement.
“We will never recognize this government, which is a puppet of Pakistan and attacks our people and violates women’s rights and dignity.”
A Taliban spokesperson mocked the protest on Tuesday, tweeting that “all the Facebook and Twitter instigators” have fled the country to the West, while “sheeplike followers” disrupt security in Kabul.
Other Taliban officials claimed the protesters were attempting to help their cases for asylum in Western countries, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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ضیا مسعود، صلاح الدین ربانی، قانوني، فدرام، محقق او خلیلي په اسلام آباد کې،
امرالله صالح او احمد مسعود تاجکستان کې، دوستم او
عطانور په ازبکستان کې، فیسبوکي او ټویټري ښکنځلماران په غرب کې اوسي؛ خو ګوسفندي پلویان یې د مظاهرو په عنوان کابل ته راغلی امن او نظم اخلالوي.— Bilal Karimi(بلال کریمي) (@BilalKarimi21) September 7, 2021
Attitudes towards the protests on the ground were divided, with one shopkeeper in agreement with the march, while his neighbor was in opposition.
“The Islamic Emirate brought us security and a true Islamic system,” the latter told the Journal.
“In all of Afghanistan, everyone is happy, and the situation is better day by day,” Mohammed Zindani, a Taliban official who was released from Bagram prison in mid-August, told the Journal after the protest was over.
“All the people of Afghanistan want this government.”
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