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Afghan Hazara leader slammed for ‘secret ties’ with Pakistan

On the death anniversary of former Afghan President, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Dostum in the meeting that Khalili is colluding with Pakistan as he continues to choose silence on Taliban’s actions….reports Asian Lite News

Abdul Rashid Dostum, a political figure and leader of the Uzbek community in Afghanistan accused Mohammad Karim Khalili, a Hazara leader of having secret ties with Pakistan, media reports said.

Dostum made the claims in an online meeting which saw the presence of anti-Talibani figures. He criticized the absence of Mohammad Karim Khalili in the meeting and accused him of having secret ties with Pakistan, reported Khaama Press.

On the death anniversary of former Afghan President, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Dostum in the meeting that Khalili is colluding with Pakistan as he continues to choose silence on Taliban’s actions.

He further said that Khalili has received money from Pakistan to stay ‘silent’ against the Taliban. Reacting to Dostum’s remarks, Mohammad Karim Khalili burst out in anger and asked the Uzbek leader to apologize for his words.

On his social media account, Khalili sai that his political party believes that war and violence is not the solution for Afghanistan’s crisis and that the country needs to switch from a centralized system to a fully decentralized administration system through negotiations, reported Khaama Press.

Since seizing control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban has been the country’s de facto authority.

The UN has called upon the Taliban to reverse the slew of measures they have introduced restricting Afghan women and girls’ enjoyment of their basic rights and freedoms.

“The window of opportunity may be narrowing, but we urge them to take concrete steps – such as actively enabling girls to return to high school – that can lift Afghanistan up and give hope to its people,” a UNAMA statement read.

Various rights group is calling on the Taliban to implement major policy changes and measures to uphold the rights of women and girls. Despite initial public commitments to uphold the rights of women and girls, the Taliban introduced policies of systematic discrimination that violate their rights.

Women and girls across Afghanistan reacted to this crackdown with a wave of protests. In response, the Taliban targeted protesters with harassment and abuse, arbitrary arrest and detention, enforced disappearance, and physical and psychological torture. (ANI)

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Afghan rights watchdog calls for probe into attacks on Hazaras

Since mid-May, at least five attacks have been taken place in Kabul in which the majority of the victims were from the Hazara community, prone to “genocide”…reports Asian Lite News

Relying on its assessments about some recent targeted attacks on the Hazara community, Afghanistan Human Rights Commission on Sunday reiterated that such attacks require comprehensive and deep investigation by an international team that should be picked by the UN.

Since mid-May, at least five attacks have been taken place in Kabul in which the majority of the victims were from the Hazara community, prone to “genocide”, reported Tolo News.

Two blasts that targeted city buses in the west of Kabul on Tuesday and two explosions in the west of Kabul on Thursday that targeted a corolla vehicle and a minivan, killing nine civilians, were all from the Hazara community.

“Our assessments showed that the Shia and Hazara community in Afghanistan are exposed to genocide and this requires more investigation,” the chairperson of the commission, Shahrzad Akbar, said. “That’s why our statement called for a probe team or an international probe commission.”

She added, “In recent days, we were busy in seeking justice so that an international probe team would visit Afghanistan.”

Meanwhile, a hashtag of “#StopHazaraGenocide” is rounding on social media platforms over the last two days in which social media users from within and outside the country cite recent attacks, show solidarity to each other, call for a thorough probe into them and say they cannot affect the unity among Afghans, reported Tolo News.

“Our passengers are dropped out of the car and are killed. They are killed at schools. Our children are killed. It is in fact a genocide. We have to raise our voice,” said Musa Khan Reja, an artist.

“They should pay attention that I, as a Pashtun, am a supporter of my Hazara brother and will never allow the enemy to create a rupture between us by such terrorist attacks,” said Khalid Noora, an activist.

Figures by some sources show that at least 560 people have been killed in 14 attacks on the Hazara community in Afghanistan in the last five years. Most of these attacks are suicide bombings and bomb blasts, many in the west of Kabul, reported Tolo News. (ANI)

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