The Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs of the fallen Republic, Mohammad Qasim Halimi, has made irrational and illogical statements and claims against the Taliban in the exclusive space of the X page.
Halimi said in the space that he was their spokesperson named Hamid Agha within the Taliban ranks. Three directives were issued by the Pakistani intelligence agency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, such as destroying bridges, public places, and buildings in Afghanistan, not allowing schools to remain open to prevent education, and instead of killing foreign nationals who came to Afghanistan, taking them alive to receive money.
In this final stage of his life, Halimi’s statements and claims actually indicate his mental unrest and severe memory weakness in exile. Several points are important regarding his statements.
The request from the Pakistani intelligence agency to the Taliban not to allow schools to operate, so that the people do not receive education, is incorrect and far from reality. The Taliban, even in a state of war, had a significant commission for education, training, and higher education, and they provided educational services in the areas under their control. After taking over the country, they paid great attention to the educational sector during their more than three-year rule, building thousands of new schools across the country, adding tens of thousands of teaching positions, establishing research and search departments in universities, and even in the remote areas of the country, such as the Wakhan Corridor in Badakhshan, they provided opportunities in health and education. Recently, a medical faculty was approved in Badakhshan province by the leadership’s order. If such instructions were given to the Taliban and they implemented them, everything would have been the opposite, and everything would have been destroyed.
Halimi has claimed that we are being instructed by Pakistan’s intelligence agency to dismantle bridges, clinics, and public places; this is an incorrect claim. If the Taliban were truly following ISI’s instructions, they would not have established a public works commission in a war-torn state, nor would they have undertaken reconstruction in remote areas. They would not have implemented projects like the construction of the Kosh Tipa Canal, the rehabilitation of the Kabul-Kandahar, Kabul-Nangarhar, Kabul-North, and other strategic roads, and the self-sufficiency project for Afghanistan. They would not have controlled water resources, ordered the construction of standard hospitals in all districts, built pharmaceutical factories, increased electricity production capacity, and carried out hundreds of other reconstruction works; because these actions are not favored by the neighboring country.
Halimi made another unreasonable and irresponsible statement, claiming that he drew a line of nullity against the holy armed struggle of the Afghan faithful and Mujahid people against NATO and America, attributing all the achievements of this process and the independence war to the ISI. He not only associated this war with the ISI but also considered the main objective of this war to be the acquisition of material gains as a result of foreign abductions; this is playing with the aspirations of the Afghan people, lobbying for the ISI, and promoting them.
The founder of the Taliban was an ordinary student, but with his faith, he spread the mantle of evil and corruption. Based on his beliefs, faith, and Afghan honor, he sacrificed a system built for a guest, which could have earned millions of dollars by handing it over to America. There were many other cases he could have traded for, but he never did.
Why did he not mention or feel ashamed of receiving instructions from foreigners when he was a minister of a puppet regime under the presence of global superpowers, receiving all instructions from foreigners? On the other hand, Pakistan is experiencing the worst security, economic, political, and social conditions in its history. Such statements serve no purpose other than to provide water to the mills of the ISI and the Pakistani regime.
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