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Jalriz survivors have no easy path when seeking justice

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(Last Updated On: October 25, 2022)

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Jalriz district of Maidan Wardak province survivors called for serious follow-up of Maidan Wardak incident by government.

A number of Bamyan inhabitants and relatives of the Jalriz victims criticized the security officials of Maidan Wardak who did not helped the killed soldiers on time.

They claimed that the Jalriz incident was conducted with support of some circles; adding formation of a find-fact commission would have no result because the members of the commission have also played role in the incident.

“The fact-finding commission is one the supports of the incident, those who are in the commission are involve in the incident,” Ishaq Mahdi, Afghan reporter said.

Hundreds of Taliban fighters launched a raid on several checkposts manned by local police in the Jalriz district of eastern Wardak province few days ago, triggering a battle that lasted around 24 hours.

Around 23 Afghan Local Police — a militia hired and controlled by the government — were killed, officials said, with some of the dead bodies decapitated.

President Ashraf Ghani termed the killings a “war crime” and called for an investigation, according to a statement issued from his office.

“War is an unpleasant fact, but such behavior can never be tolerated, and this cowardly act of enemies of Afghanistan” the President said, “is against all principles of war and equals to war crime.”

President Ghani stated that no canons or treaties, either domestic or international allow disrespecting corpses and the holy religion of Islam strictly prohibits such acts.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani offers his heartfelt condolences and sympathies to the families of the victims and wishes the Almighty gives them patience at this difficult time.

Hundreds of fresh forces who arrived in Jalrez took back territory lost to the insurgents, but the families of the victims — all from the Hazara ethnic minority — said the government had failed to provide ammunition and reinforcements in time.

“It is all because of the government’s negligence, there were a lot of police and army checkposts around Jalrez but nobody cared. The government is responsible for their deaths,” Mohammad Aref, the nephew of one of the fallen commanders said.

He said his uncle, Mohammed, also known as Sia, was in touch with his family right before he died.

“In his last call he told us that he had only seven bullets left, he said goodbye and hung up. We never heard from him again.”

In Kabul over the weekend, several hundred people protested against the government’s handling of the incident, which prominent Hazara politician Mohammad Mohaqiq, second vice for executive directorate of the government called a “catastrophe.”

The Jalrez raid was the latest in a series of brazen Taliban attacks since the group began their annual spring offensive in April.

Fighting on multiple fronts and facing record casualties, Afghan forces totaling 350,000 are struggling to rein in militants following the end of NATO’s combat mission last December.

 

 

 

 

 

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US urges IEA to fulfill counter-terrorism commitments

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The US State Department said on Thursday that Washington is committed to ensuring that Afghanistan can never again be a launching pad for terrorism.

“We remain committed to ensuring that Afghanistan can never again be a launching pad for terrorism, and we continue to push the Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) to fulfill all of their counterterrorism commitments to the international community,” the department’s spokesperson Matthew Miller said at a news briefing in Washington.

He reiterated that the United States had clearly communicated to the IEA that it’s their responsibility to ensure that “they give no safe haven to terrorists, whether it be Al Qaeda or ISIS-K or any other terrorist organization”.

Miller also reassured US allies that Washington was closely watching the developments in Afghanistan and was ready to deal with any threat emerging from the region.

“We remain vigilant against the evolving threat of these terrorist groups, and our global coalition to defeat ISIS and the C5+1 help intensify our efforts to monitor terrorist threats from the region and prevent their ability to raise funds, travel, and spread propaganda,” he said.

C5+1 refers to a diplomatic platform involving the five Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgy­zstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) and the United States. It serves as a forum for discussing and addressing regional issues such as security, economic development, and cooperation.

“The United States remains vigilant against the evolving threat posed by terrorist groups, including ISIS-K, and has maintained an unwavering focus on terrorism since President Joe Biden took office three years ago,” Miller said.

The US, he said, was “working both unilaterally and with its partners to successfully disrupt threats across the globe and degrade ISIS”.

“We will continue to work to hold ISIS accountable for its actions and to prevent terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western countries,” Miller said.

This comes as IEA has repeatedly said that it is committed to not allowing anyone to use Afghanistan soil against any other country.

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IEA condemns Israel for confiscating 800 hectares of land in West Bank’s Jordan Valley

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) strongly condemned on Thursday Israel’s decision to seize 800 hectares of land in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley region.

In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said that the recent actions by “the Zionist regime demonstrate that it does not to adhere to international laws, especially international humanitarian law.”

“Continuation of such unilateral actions and ignoring the rights of Palestinian people will further deteriorate the situation,” the statement said.

“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan expects international actors, particularly influential regional Muslim countries to fulfill their legitimate, human and moral responsibilities in supporting the oppressed people of Palestine and prevent the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied territories,” it added.

Israeli media have reported that Israel seized 800 hectares of land in the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank, claiming it as “state land.”

It is reported the seized land could be used for the construction of illegal Jewish settlements.

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ISIS-K leader reportedly living in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province

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Sanaullah Ghaffari, also known as Shahab al-Muhajar, is reportedly the ISIS-Khorasan (Daesh) branch leader and is holed up in Pakistan, Reuters reports.

The 29-year-old took over as leader in 2020 and under his leadership the group has carried out extreme attacks as a means of recruiting, Reuters reported.

Reuters noted that little was known about Ghafari before the deadly 2021 ISIS attack on Kabul Airport, which killed 170 Afghan civilians and 13 American soldiers.

But after Friday’s deadly attack in a concert hall in Moscow, which left 139 people dead, Ghaffari’s group has come under intense scrutiny.

Reuters reports that Ghaffari is said to have been involved in several attacks in Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

Pakistani officials said months ago that Ghaffari had been killed in Kunar province in Afghanistan in June last year, but Reuters has reported that he did not die and instead fled to Pakistan and lives in the border province of Baluchistan.

Abdul Matin Qani, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan, says that Daesh has been suppressed in Afghanistan for more than two years and has lost its operational capacity.

The last attack carried out by Daesh in Afghanistan was the attack on the Kabul Bank office in Kandahar last week which left three dead and 12 wounded.

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