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The Taliban have dug up a white Toyota used by their founding leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, to escape into hiding in southern Afghanistan after the US invasion.
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Senior officials have called for the vehicle to be put on display at the national museum in Kabul. It already houses the cars and coaches of former kings and prime ministers, including one with bulletproof glass fragmented by an assassination attempt.
“A man travelled in this car who took part in the most amazing events in history,” Anas Haqqani, the brother of the interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, and an influential government figure, wrote on Twitter.
“He relied on God Almighty, he commanded (Taliban forces) in an unequal war against dozens of invading countries, and won. This memorial … should be kept in the country’s national museum.”
Defence minister Mullah Muhammad Yaqoub – Mullah Omar’s son – ordered officials to uncover the car, which had been buried for around 20 years, a Taliban source said.
Uskomaton tarina, tosi tarina.He would spend the rest of his life within walking distance of US bases there despite a $10m bounty on his head. US forces once searched a house where he was hiding, an aide told Dam, but did not find the entrance to a secret room that hid him.
Omar died in 2013, but the movement did not admit his death until two years later. Omar had effectively handed over practical control of the insurgency to his deputies in 2001, when he went into hiding.
At the time the Taliban were trying to surrender to the new US-backed government in Kabul led by Hamid Karzai, the president, but the US refused to accept their plea.
“The car can be seen as significant – Omar used it during a historical moment for peace,” said Dam. “When he entered this white Toyota, and left his office, most of his leadership had surrendered...
“He himself took at that moment the decision to disappear to his grandfather’s land. I didn’t know about the hiding of the car but I am sure they didn’t feel safe at all … because soon the hunting down of the surrendered Taliban started, so he buried the car and was hiding.”
The Taliban’s ban on girls studying at high schools will become a de facto ban on university degrees for women if it stays in place, a Taliban spokesperson and university officials have said.
Girls will not have the documents needed to enrol in higher education, or the academic capacity to start university courses after nearly a year out of school.
“Automatically if we do not have high school graduates, we won’t have new female university students any more,” said Maulawi Ahmed Taqi, a spokesperson for the Taliban’s ministry of higher education.
“But I am hopeful that the ministry of education will come up with a policy and soon reopen the schools. Because we have realised that it is important, and the ban on girls’ education is temporary.”
Even if practical barriers to women entering higher education are removed in the coming months, authorities are also considering limiting them to degrees in healthcare and education, said a source with Taliban leadership ties.
The Taliban have launched construction work on a tourism complex just metres from the cliff that held the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which archeologists and experts warn could cause permanent damage to the sensitive world heritage site.
The project aims to “rebuild” a historic bazaar, which was destroyed in the civil war of the 1990s. Under the Taliban blueprint, the area will become a tourism centre with restaurants, guesthouses, parking, public toilets and handicraft and grocery shops.
But the ruined bazaar is itself a historic site that may sit on top of older ruins, and it is also close to the fragile cliff of Buddhist monastery caves that is one of Afghanistan’s greatest treasures.
“This old bazaar is in the archaeological buffer zone of the world heritage site and Unesco [the UN agency that manages the listings] has never been in favour of reusing this place,” said a diplomat with expertise in heritage issues in Afghanistan, who asked to remain anonymous.
“On the contrary, these buildings are located in the middle of an archaeological zone, and the buildings themselves are in some way part of the late 19th- and early 20th-century heritage and therefore their reconstruction is sensitive.”
He said the project had been signed off by Unesco, the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural agency. “[The central government] negotiated with Unesco and they sent us back a guideline on how to do it.”
But Unesco, which monitors world heritage sites and has been working at Bamiyan for decades, said it had not been consulted on the project, and had not given its approval to rebuilding the bazaar. It warned in a statement that the building could affect conservation work.
“Unesco has neither requested nor been associated with this project, which is located in the heart of the archaeological zone and could be problematic for the proper conservation of the world heritage site,” it said in a statement.
Heritage experts from Bamiyan also said they were alarmed at the destructive potential of the plan.
“This is a very restricted area, nobody is allowed to do any construction here, but the Taliban have decided to rebuild,” said one official who asked not to be named criticising the government. “I worked here in the past and I know the value of the site.
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SANGIN, AFGANISTAN Matka kohti Helmandin maakuntaa on luita kalisuttava. Asfaltti on täynnä monttuja ääriliike Talibanin tienvarsipommien jäljiltä.
Helmand tunnettiin ennen Afganistanin väkivaltaisimpana maakuntana. Moni menetti henkensä tällä eteläisellä maantiellä.
Tuhoutuneen tien varrella seisoo Afganistanin entisen hallituksen rakennusten raunioita. Luotien rei’ittämät seinät ovat romahtaneet kasaan. Tuhon keskellä liehuvat uhmakkaasti Talibanin liput.
Yle vieraili Helmandissa tammikuussa 2022. Toimittajien on ollut helpompi tulla raportoimaan alueelle vasta taisteluiden loputtua. Siksi paikallisten ihmisten kokemukset eivät ole aiemmin saaneet kovin paljon näkyvyyttä.
Juuri täältä löytyy kuitenkin yksi kenties tärkeimmistä syistä siihen (siirryt toiseen palveluun), miksi Taliban pääsi takaisin valtaan Afganistanissa vuosi sitten elokuussa.
Sitting on a thin mat, a plastic tarpaulin propped up above her head, offering an escape from Kabul’s summer sun, Sabsa Gul is reading women’s palms. She’s a fortune teller, mostly giving marriage or job advice, though lately discussion topics have changed, the 40-year-old says.
“Women are now asking me to help them leave the country. They don’t want to stay in Afghanistan any longer.”
Aika kallis keikka, yli 300 miljoonaa euroa...Laitetaas nämä talteen:
Puolustusministeriö julkaissut selvityksensä A-maan reissusta.
Puolustusministeriön Afganistan-selvitys
julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi
Kriittistä kommentointia PLM:n / PV:n itsearvioinnin vastinpariksi:
Afganistan | Puolustusministeriön Afganistan-selvityksestä puuttuu kritiikki ja analyyttisyys, sanoo sotatutkija: ”Afganistan oli Suomelle vain taistelukenttä”
Sotatieteiden dosentti Ilmari Käihkön mielestä Suomen Afganistan-operaatiota pitää arvioida kriittisesti ja julkisesti, jotta siitä voidaan myös oppia tulevaisuuden varalle.www.hs.fi
Dosentti Käihkön kommentteja:
”Peräänkuulutan kriittistä julkista selontekoa, ja tämä virkamiestyö ei ole sellainen”
”Tämän perusteella Afganistan oli Suomelle vain taistelukenttä kahdenvälisten suhteiden hoitamiseen ja afganistanilaiset vain statisteja. Tämä on aika outo tapa ajatella, kun puolustusministeri sanoo selvityksen alussa, että tavoitteena oli Afganistanin turvallisuuden parantaminen.”
15 miljoonaa per vuosi.... no ei ole kallis keikka.Aika kallis keikka, yli 300 miljoonaa euroa...