Motorcades of the Taliban are expected to parade through the streets of Herat and Kabul
The Taliban government in Afghanistan is celebrating today, a day that has been declared a holidaythe second anniversary of seizing control of the country with celebrations and a proclamation proudly referring to their return to power.
“The capture of Kabul has once again proved that no one can control the proud Afghan nation and that no invader will be allowed to threaten the country’s independence and freedom,” Taliban officials said in a statement this morning. .
The black and white flags of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the name given to the country again by its new leaders, flew at security checkpoints in the capital, which was seized on August 15, 2022, when the US-backed government collapsed and its leaders were exiled.
The streets of the capital, however, remained remarkably quiet this morning, according to AFP journalists. Taliban began gathering in front of the former US embassy building. Some took selfies while religious hymns were played.
“Today is a day of joy”: it is “the date of the end of the occupation of our country,” Mortaza Khairi, 21, a medical student, told AFP. Studies that are impossible for girls to follow, who can no longer attend universities.
In the two years following their return to power, Taliban authorities have imposed their own extreme interpretation of Islamic law on the country, with women particularly hard hit by their edicts whom the United Nations labeled “gender apartheid”.
The planned military parade in Kandahar, where the Taliban movement was born and where supreme leader Himbatullah Akhundzada rules, was ultimately called off.
Taliban motorcades expected to parade through the streets of Herat (west) and Kabul. The education ministry is holding an event at a school in a district of the city where diplomats once gathered, now few and far between as the Taliban government is not officially recognized by any other country.
“Death to the Europeans! Death to Westerners! Long live the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan! Death to the Americans!” shouted Taliban supporters in Herat in the morning.
Source :Skai
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