(Last Updated On: April 3, 2021)
Ahmad Zia Saraj, Chief of the National Directorate of Security, said Saturday that the Taliban has no intention of laying down arms, nor does it want peace as they are preparing to intensify the conflict across the country.
Addressing a press conference, Saraj stated that the group has increased attacks on Afghan forces since the beginning of the new solar year.
“The Taliban are preparing for war. The group has no will for peace. The members of the group are busy harvesting poppies and then they (Taliban militants) have planned to carry out attacks on various parts of the country,” Saraj stated.
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“The Taliban is the same Taliban as before. They have not changed
By Scott Peterson
In the streets of Kabul, Shogofa Sediqi knew she was being stalked by Taliban killers.
As the chief director for Afghanistan’s Zan TV (Women’s TV), she had grown accustomed to militants sending her threats, telling her in real time what she was wearing and what time she left home, and warning her to stop her work as a journalist.
“We know you are back, at the airport,” read the first message that popped up on her phone last summer, after a month in India. Later, men waiting in a car outside her house rammed her vehicle as they tried to run her over.
The human rights magazine
Bitter Winter reported on Wednesday that the government of Afghanistan deported ten Chinese nationals last week initially accused of engaging in terrorist activity, but later believed to be attempting to create a fake Uyghur terrorist cell to defame the ethnic group.
Reports of the arrests in Kabul first surfaced in India’s
Hindustan Times and named the alleged leader of the group as Li Yangyang, a Han Chinese name. The
Hindustan Times was the first to report, last week, that Kabul had reached a deal with China to return the Chinese citizens implicated to their home country without creating a public scandal.
Afghan Army Pilot Massoud Atal Buried in Kandahar
Massoud Atal, a military pilot, who was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in PD14 of Kandahar city on Wednesday afternoon, wa laid to rest in his hometown in Kandahar province on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Atal had pursued his education abroad and was expected to complete his training on nighttime flights in the near future.
After completing his education in Afghan Air Force Academy Atal went to Czechia and then to the US where he pursued his education.
“He was educated abroad. Investments were made on him and he became a pilot, but he is lost simple as that. Was the government unable to give him a guard? said Zabiullah, Atal’s cousin.