Divergent Views: Taliban and Former Afghan Officials Respond to Asif. Mohammad Naeem Wardak, Administrative and Financial Deputy of the Taliban Foreign Ministry, responded to Khawaja Asif’s recent statements, noting that while controversial in media circles, these remarks are “not unexpected” for the Taliban. Asif had described the Afghan wars as “political and proxy,” claiming Islamabad
Humiliation of the Chief of Staff; Fasihuddin on Horseback, Pashtun Taliban by Helicopter. Nearly five years after Qari Fasihuddin Fetrat was appointed Chief of Staff of the Taliban Ministry of Defense, field evidence indicates that he has been effectively reduced to a ceremonial and powerless position. Informed sources report that Fasihuddin has no significant influence
Sara Adams Exposes Taliban’s Open Misogyny. Sara Adams, a former CIA officer, described the arrest of a teenage girl in Afghanistan as “a blatant example of the Taliban’s organized crimes” and a stark testament to the complete collapse of humanity under this regime. Referring to the detention of “Nuria,” an orphan girl forced to wear
Michael Semple: Taliban Preparing for Potential Civil Conflict. Michael Semple, former Deputy EU Special Representative for Afghanistan and a senior analyst on Afghan affairs, states that the Taliban have established special security structures to protect their leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, indicating preparedness for a potential internal conflict scenario. According to Semple, the Taliban leadership perceives
Marshal Dostum: Governments Built on Corruption and Discrimination Do Not Last. Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum, a prominent Afghan political leader, met and held discussions at his residence in Ankara with a number of participants attending the memorial ceremony of Khwaja Taj Mohammad, a former Afghan pilot. According to his remarks during the meeting, the Taliban
Fourth Bloody Assassination: Anti-Taliban Figures Targeted Inside Iran. This marks the fourth violent assassination of former military commanders and anti-Taliban figures on Iranian soil. Informed sources report the killing of Rahmatullah Mujahid, the former commander of Unit 737 of Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) in Badghis Province, in Tehran—an incident that has once again
A Rare Criticism by an Official of the Deprivation of Girls, and a Complaint Against the Taliban Leader’s Decision. The head of Kabul Traffic Police, Khayal Mohammad Ghavor, in a rare and high-risk statement, has criticized the continued deprivation of girls from education and said that their absence from school makes him “deeply upset.” These
Revelation of Epstein’s confidential documents; Karzai the most fraudulent individual in the elections. Newly released documents from the Epstein archive reveal one of the biggest electoral scandals in Afghanistan’s history and show that during Hamid Karzai’s government, elections were not a democratic process but a scene of widespread fraud and systematic corruption. The extent of
Badakhshan under the control of Pashtun Taliban; Tajik Taliban have been marginalized in their own home. Local sources say Taliban officials, by appointing the Pashtun commander Maulavi Abdul Basir Mazhari as the new security commander of Badakhshan, have not respected the local Tajik Taliban in their own homeland. His introduction ceremony was held on Thursday,
If War Begins; Will the Taliban Host Iranian Migrants? An intelligence source based in Doha, who is closely familiar with developments in Afghanistan and the region, has warned that the region is on the verge of major and pre-planned transformations. According to the source, his predictions over the past two months, ranging from the confiscation
