{"id":15239,"date":"2026-01-25T01:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15239"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:07:30","slug":"farid-mazdak-the-afghan-melti-project-led-to-the-emergence-of-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/farid-mazdak-the-afghan-melti-project-led-to-the-emergence-of-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Farid Mazdak: The \u201cAfghan-Melti\u201d Project Led to the Emergence of the Taliban."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Farid Mazdak: The \u201cAfghan-Melti\u201d Project Led to the Emergence of the Taliban.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Farid Mazdak, a prominent figure in Afghanistan\u2019s leftist movement, stated in a recent commentary that the ethnic nationalist movement known as \u201cAfghan-Melti\u201d was responsible for the formation of the Taliban, describing them as the violent and ruthless manifestation of this project.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said that Afghan-Melti had hidden behind slogans of national unity, religion, history, and state for years, and now openly claims ethnic ownership over the country and power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This movement regards the country as \u201cours,\u201d calls its identity the \u201cnational identity,\u201d and allows others only two options: submission or elimination.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0In this discourse, the concept of equal citizenship no longer exists; the debate centers on the monopoly of territory, power, and identity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mazdak considers Afghanistan\u2019s current situation the result of over a century of monopoly, coercion, and imposed identity, rather than a sudden event or conspiracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He asserts that the Taliban are merely the external, violent face of this long-standing nationalist project.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The leftist leader further warns that standing against this dangerous project is not a luxury political choice but a moral duty, emphasizing that silence in the face of Afghan-Melti nationalism is not neutrality but complicity with oppression and exclusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Farid Mazdak: The \u201cAfghan-Melti\u201d Project Led to the Emergence of the Taliban. Farid Mazdak, a prominent figure in Afghanistan\u2019s leftist movement, stated in a recent commentary that the ethnic nationalist movement known as \u201cAfghan-Melti\u201d was responsible for the formation of the Taliban, describing them as the violent and ruthless manifestation of this project. He said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15252,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions\/15252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}