Mullah Mohammad Essa Akhund, was introduced as new #Kabul_Governor today.
A Pashton from Kandahar (?), he was a battle field expert of the #TB in the south, and recently was serving as security chief for the Ministry of Defense.
Pro-TB accounts defined him as an anti-ISKP figure.
Following the announcement of Mullah Mohammad Essa (Yasin) Akhund, as the new Kabul Governor, many sources in social media, accused him of having background of spoiling governmental assets in Paktika Province, when he was serving as governor there in late 2021.
Paktika people...
... reportedly complained and stood against him, which resulted in his shifting to Kabul as commander of security& support brigade of the Ministry of Defense. #Taliban usually tolerate the wrongdoings of their powerful commanders and figures, mainly for keeping the group's unity.
#Taliban's (late) senior ideologue, Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani in a speech about Khawarij mentioned a story about how the TB's leadership promoted a commander, after complains against him, to the (shadow) district governor, provincial governor& Central Commission member positions.
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#Taliban's supreme leader, issued a decree, in which he approved: 1. Regulations for Prevention of #Land_Grabbing& the Return of Seized Land (PLG&RSL). 2. Establishment of a commission for the PLG&RSL. 3. A commission Bill. 4. Establishment of a specialized court for the PLG&RSL.
TB's supreme leader ratified the regulations of PLG&RSL in 4 chapters and 21 articles.
He also approved the Bill for the Commission of PLG&RSL in 9 articles.
The commission's members are as follow: 1. Minister of Justice (Head of Commission) 2. Minister of Agriculture (member)...
3- Minister of Urban Development (member). 4. Minister of Labor (member) 5. Attorney General (member)
The special court for PLG&RSL is consisted of four members as follow: 1. Sheikh-ul-Hadith Mawlawi Abdul Ghafar (head of court) 2. Mohammad Sadiq (Judge) 3. Mohammad Tahir (Mufti)
Some facts about the #foreign_fighters (FFs) living under the #Taliban's shadow: 1. There are a couple of thousands of FFs living in #AFG under the TB's regime. Majority of them are settled in the east (Kunar&Nangarhar) & north (Badakhshan&Takhar) of AFG. afintl.com/en/202210196971
2. Pakistanis & citizens of Central Asian countries make the absolute majority of the FFs in AFG, followed by Arabs, Indians, Turks...
FFs in small numbers are scattered all over AFG, from south to north and from east to west.
3. While the FFs supported the TB in last 2 decades,
... the IEA have to host and protect them mainly for two reasons:
A. Religion and AFG traditions not allow the TB to expel the FFs or to handover them to their enemies (their countries of origin).
B. The TB can use the FFs as bargaining chips and as a means of pressure against...
#Clash between #Taliban& #ISKP in #Kunduz City:
Taliban reportedly raided a hideout of suspected ISKP members, in Bandar-e Khanabad area of Kunduz City, today morning. Armed clash continued for a couple of hours in the area.
Pro-TB sources claimed that 5 ISKP members were killed.
A video from today's incident scene in PD2 of #Kunduz City.
Source: Copied from SM
#Kunduz Police:
"Today morning, based on a reconnaissance report, the IEA security forces launched a special operation on the hideout of the armed men belonged to Khawarij group (#ISKP) in Sarak-e Naw area of PD2 in Kunduz city. After an armed clash, all 5 of them were killed."
Pro-#Taliban sources are celebrating the #assassination of Commander Abdul #Samad, a former Police officer from Kandahar, in #Quetta City of Balochistan.
Few days back, Commander Samad appeared in a video clip, with AFG tri-color flag in the background, condemning the attack... twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
... against #Kaaj Educational Center in Kabul& said he had served AFG in the past& without regret, he continues serving his country.
His remarks were apparently interpreted by the pro-TB media activists, as anti-IEA, claiming that he had announced "rebellion" against the Taliban.
Meanwhile, today morning, unknown gunmen shot&killed a Salafi scholar, Sheikh Mawlana Abdul Aziz, in Bara town of KPK Province of Pakistan.
AFG TB, ISKP& TTP, among others, are the 3 main groups having the capacity&history of target killings in KPK&Quetta. mashriqtv.pk/latest/252016/…
Hizb ut-Tahrir dedicated its weekly comment to the recent "#Mysterious_bombings & their motives" in #AFG.
"The recent horrific explosions show that after the deployment of the intelligence networks of regional countries& super powers in AFG in various forms, there are signs of...
...complex games being played by major colonial powers, such as the U.S. & its allied states that neighboring AFG. The motive of these explosions is more of a kind of psychological war against the IEA...to increase the distance between the government& the people of Afghanistan...
...The IEA needs a coherent, decisive& unwavering stance in its foreign policy with these states, to block the doors& paths of these states& powers to AFG.
The closeness of the IEA for recognition, to the great powers& their dependent states, makes the game more complicated...
Gulbuddin #Hekmatyar's "peaceful& constructive #plan to rescue Afghanistan& end the crisis" include 7 articles as follow: 1. An unrestricted&unconditional meeting between all influential AFG parties, who will make decisions by consensus, not the majority, to be acceptable to all.
2. The meeting will be intra-Afghan and Trilateral delegations will participate in it:
A- The Government (Taliban)
B- The Armed Opposion Groups
C- Afghans who are against the war and pro-peace 3. It would be good if foreign stakeholders& representatives of the UN be invited as...
... observers and supporters; but they should promise to avoid any kind of interference in AFG affairs and will support any unanimous decision of the meeting. 4. This meeting should be held in a neutral country that is neither a supporter of any party in AFG nor has it helped ...