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The Taliban chief warned that the ungrateful Afghans for his hard rule will be seriously punished by God in a declaration marking the fourth anniversary of the Return of the group in power.
Friday, the declaration of Haibatullah Akhunzada was made in an article on social networks to commemorate the “victory day”, four years after the chaotic withdrawal of the United States and NATO from the country after more than 20 years of war while the Taliban took over the capital, Kabul.
The threat was a brutal reminder of radical restrictions and the repression of rights, especially women and girls, which took place during the reign of the Taliban, which is based on its strict interpretation of Islamic law.
In his declaration, Akhunzada said that the Afghans have faced difficulties for decades in the name of the establishment of religious law in the country, which, according to him, had saved citizens from “corruption, oppression, usurpation, drugs, theft, theft and looting”.
“These are large divine blessings that our people should not forget and, during the day of the commemoration of victory, expresses a great gratitude to Allah all-powerful so that the blessings increase,” said his declaration.
“If, against the will of God, we cannot express his gratitude for blessings and that we are ungrateful for them, we will be subject to the severe punishment of Allah all-powerful.”
He also advised government ministers to remove the word “act” from their employment titles, reporting the consolidation of the rule of his administration in the country in the midst of a lack of internal opposition.
Victory day
Four years after its return to power, the Taliban government remains largely isolated in the international arena on the serious restrictions of rights imposed during its reign, although Russia has become the first country to officially recognize the administration of the Taliban in early July.
He also has close links with China, the United Arab Emirates and a number of emirs of Central Asia, although none of these elements officially recognize the administration of the Taliban.
Friday, the victory day parades were planned in several Afghan cities and in Kabul, helicopters had to drop flowers across the city. The photographs of an official ceremony in Kabul to open commemorations showed a room filled exclusively by male delegates.
“An open injury in history”
Rather than celebrating, members of the UNITED Afghan Women’s Movement for Freedom activist group organized a room demonstration in the northeast province of Takhar against the Taliban’s oppressive rule, the Associated Press news agency reported.
“This day marked the start of a black domination that excluded women from work, education and social life,” the group said in a statement to the agency.
“We, Protestant women, remember this day not as a memory, but as an open injury in history, an injury that has not yet healed. The fall of Afghanistan was not the fall of our will. We hold, even in darkness. ”
Afghan women also organized a room demonstration in the Pakistani capital, the agency reported.
Repression and death threats
The United Nations, foreign governments and human rights groups condemned the Taliban for their treatment of women and girls, who are prohibited from most studies and work, as well as parks, gymnasiums and travel without male tutor.
The inspectors of the vice and the ministry of virtue force women to wear a Chador, a complete mantle covering their heads, while a law announced a year ago, women ordered not to sing or recite poetry in public and so that their voices and their bodies are “hidden” outside the house.
Last month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants issued Against Akhunzada and the country’s chief judge for committing sex based on sex against women and girls.
ICC judges said the Taliban had “seriously deprived” girls and women of rights educationPrivate life, family life and freedoms of movement, expression, thought, consciousness and religion.
At least 1.4 million girls were “deliberately deprived” of their right to a education By the Taliban government, a United Nations report in August 2024 found.
Among the restrictions imposed on women, there is a ban on working for non -governmental groups, among other jobs. A United Nations report this month revealed that dozens of Afghan women working for the organization of the country had received threats of direct death.
The report indicates that the Taliban had declared to the United Nations mission that his executives were not responsible for threats and that an investigation by the Ministry of Internal Affairs was underway. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Abdul Mateen Qani, later told the Associated Press news agency that no threat had been made.
Meanwhile, Iran, Pakistan and the United States have returned Afghan refugees to the domination of the Taliban, where they risk persecution.
