ISIS-Khorasan (Also known as ISKP) recently released a song titled "We Kill Spies to Save the People" in Pashto. The video features graphic imagery and footage of beheadings and massacres committed by the group in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, serving as a threatening message to ISIS’s opponents. The song uses the term "Lar o Bar," which is common among Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pashtun nationalist movements in both countries believe that Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand Line are of Afghan descent, and that…
It was afternoon, and the residents of the small village of Qariudal were happy about a simple event: pilgrims from the village had returned from Karbala. The village of Qariudal, consisting of mud houses nestled in the remote mountains of the Sangtakht and Bandar district in Daikundi province, is one of the poorest areas in Afghanistan, with no signs of prosperity or development. The villagers were joyfully preparing to welcome back the Karbala pilgrims. About 40 villagers were supposed to travel through the mountainous and dirt roads to Ghor…
The Taliban's Ministry of Education announced in a press conference in Kabul on Wednesday, 11 September, that the number of religious schools (madrasas) in Afghanistan has reached 21,257 centers, where 3,687,200 students are currently receiving education. According to the report from the Taliban’s Ministry of Education, the total number of official public and private schools is 18,337. The figures show that, for the first time in Afghanistan, the number of religious schools has surpassed that of public and private schools. In June 2022, T…
A recent report by the United Nations Security Council regarding Afghanistan and the terrorist groups based in the country reveals that Al-Qaeda members have recently returned to Afghanistan from various countries, particularly Yemen, while the threat from ISIS-Khorasan is also on the rise in the country. According to this report, Abdulazim bin Ali, a seasoned Al-Qaeda commander from Libya, is working as an advisor to Sirajuddin Haqqani, leader of the Haqqani network and interior minister of the Taliban regime. Several other Al-Qaeda commande…
With a suitcase in hand and a bag on my shoulder, after an eight-hour train journey, I arrived at the entrance of Regina Theater in Uppsala, a city 70 kilometers north of Stockholm. The theater's doors were closed, and one of the guards said there were no available seats. The only option was the balcony on the second floor, where there were no seats either, but I could stand and watch the event. When I looked at my watch, the program had already started 20 minutes earlier. From the second-floor balcony, it was difficult to see the stage. D…
Two days after ISIS-Khorasan's deadly attack on the Taliban's Attorney General's Office on Monday, September 2nd, the Afghan Prosecutors' Association announced in a statement that 16 former government prosecutors were killed and many others were injured in the attack. Khalid Zadran, the Taliban police spokesperson in Kabul, initially reported that six people were killed and 13 were injured in the attack. The Afghan Prosecutors' Association stated that similar attacks in the past had also targeted Afghan prosecutors, resul…
I heard you have a daughter who, yesterday morning, you kissed on the cheek before heading to work, and she is eagerly waiting for your return. You have a mother in a remote village in Darwaz, Badakhshan, who still doesn’t know what has happened to her son. Brothers who are migrants, and a father whose condition I don’t know. I remember that hot summer day when you called me for the first time, speaking with your sweet Badakhshani accent, saying you had just arrived in Mazar and got my number from Sarwar Hosseini [the spokesperson of Kunduz …
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