{"id":15469,"date":"2026-02-11T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15469"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:32:10","slug":"unprecedented-taliban-attack-on-the-national-army-an-insult-to-thousands-of-fallen-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/unprecedented-taliban-attack-on-the-national-army-an-insult-to-thousands-of-fallen-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented Taliban Attack on the National Army; An Insult to Thousands of Fallen Soldiers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15483\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aomorretalibdde.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aomorretalibdde.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aomorretalibdde-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aomorretalibdde-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aomorretalibdde-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aomorretalibdde-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Unprecedented Taliban Attack on the National Army; An Insult to Thousands of Fallen Soldiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Noor-ul-Haq Anwar, the Taliban\u2019s Head of Administrative Affairs, has made controversial and insulting remarks, describing the National Army of the former Republic as an institution composed of \u201cilliterate individuals, devoid of religious feeling, unpatriotic, and possessing dead consciences\u201d; statements widely viewed as provocative and unprecedented.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>He made these remarks on 7 February 2026, during a graduation ceremony for Taliban fighters, where he openly distorted facts and claimed that under the former system, individuals who were \u201cuneducated and lacking national spirit\u201d were deliberately recruited into the National Army.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>He went further by accusing the former Republic of \u201cdisregarding the value of defending the country\u201d and even of carrying out bombardments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>These statements come despite official documents from the former Ministry of National Defense showing that religious education, promotion of patriotism, and national cohesion were mandatory components of the National Army\u2019s training programs, and that religious scholars were present in all army corps, brigades, and battalions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Moreover, the subject of \u201cIslamic Culture\u201d was formally taught at the National Defense University and other military academies, a reality that casts serious doubt on the Taliban\u2019s claims.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unprecedented Taliban Attack on the National Army; An Insult to Thousands of Fallen Soldiers. Noor-ul-Haq Anwar, the Taliban\u2019s Head of Administrative Affairs, has made controversial and insulting remarks, describing the National Army of the former Republic as an institution composed of \u201cilliterate individuals, devoid of religious feeling, unpatriotic, and possessing dead consciences\u201d; statements widely viewed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469","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=15469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15486,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469\/revisions\/15486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}