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Rebel Taliban commander killed trying to flee from Afghanistan to Iran
[DAWN] A rebel Taliban...Arabic for students... commander from Afghanistan’s minority Shia Hazara  ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...community was killed while attempting to flee to Iran, the defence ministry said on Wednesday, denying local reports suggesting he was murdered in captivity. Mahdi Mujahid’s split with the Taliban leadership in June is the highest-profile public division seen in the hardline group since they returned to power in August last year. He was appointed intelligence chief of Bamiyan ...a place in Afghanistan that used to have some historically interesting statues of the Buddha carved into a mountainside. Then the holy men showed up and now all they have is some big holes... province at the time, but months later was sacked following a dispute that local media attributed to control of the lucrative coal trade. Mujahid went on the run in June after the Taliban sent thousands of troops to crush his loyalists. Days of fighting raged, with the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... estimating at least 27,000 people were displaced by the violence. Afghanistan’s mostly Shia ethnic Hazaras have faced persecution for decades, and Mujahid’s appointment was initially seen as supporting the Taliban’s claim of being more inclusive to non-Pashtuns. On Wednesday, officials said border forces identified Mujahid in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province, near the frontier with Iran, and "punished him for his deeds". "He didn’t have anyone with him," provincial information officer Naeemul Haq Haqqani told AFP, adding he was "killed after a conflict".
"Rumours that this person was captured alive are lies," he said. The Taliban were accused of abuses against the Hazaras when they first ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. The Hazaras are also the target of attacks by the Death Eater Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, which considers them heretics.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men... 13 years ago, while foreign forces were stationed in Afghanistan; he played a key part in the collapse of the republican system in Afghanistan’s northern provinces. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... more than ten months after the Taliban assumed power, he began to criticize the Taliban group. According to reports, Mahdi Mujahid sought more Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...participation in the Taliban government, but the Taliban leaders disregarded not just his demand, but also the views of the international community and internal political circles, in order to establish an inclusive government. Mawlawi Mujahid was the only Hazara Taliban commander to take up arms against the Taliban government. Related: Mahdi Mujahid: 2022-07-24 Thousands flee feuding Taliban in Afghanistan’s north Mahdi Mujahid: 2022-06-29 Taliban Senior Official Denies the Claims of “Attacks Against Civilians” in North Afghanistan Mahdi Mujahid: 2022-06-24 Taliban’s Highest-Ranking Army Officer Heads to Northern Afghanistan; Clash Between the Taliban and Mawlawi Mujahid Possible at ‘Any Moment’ Related: Bamiyan: 2022-07-24 Thousands flee feuding Taliban in Afghanistan’s north Bamiyan: 2022-07-11 Good Morning Bamiyan: 2022-06-28 MoD Says Clashes in Balkhab Have Ended Related: Hazara: 2022-08-07 3 People Die in Blast on Second Day of Attacks in Kabul Hazara: 2022-07-24 Thousands flee feuding Taliban in Afghanistan’s north Hazara: 2022-07-19 Afghan refugees turn F-6 children’s park into ‘tent village’ Posted by: Fred 2022-08-18 |
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