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[00:00:09] Emirate participated in an annual meeting of
[00:01:00] the United Nations, international organizations, donors and
[00:01:03] development partners. During the meeting, the priorities of the technical and
[00:01:07] vocational education authority of the Islamic Emirate, infrastructure and
[00:01:10] equipment, educational programs, development and capacity
[00:01:13] building, identified based on the actual needs of the Afghans. The
[00:01:17] meetings aim to ensure that future aid and development cooperation
[00:01:21] are coordinated as much as possible within these priority
[00:01:24] areas. Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Public Relations
[00:01:28] Directorate is expected to graduate, sharing the priorities of 13
[00:01:32] sectoral institutions of the Islamic Emirate with donors in the
[00:01:35] future.
[00:01:38] A delegation from the Ministry of Justice led by Deputy Minister for
[00:01:41] Professional Affairs Maulawi Abdulkarim Haidar has traveled to Bamyan
[00:01:45] Province as part of its ongoing inspection of the provincial
[00:01:48] Justice Directorates. The Ministry of Justice says Mr. Haidar
[00:01:52] met with the local officials, listened to the work-related challenges
[00:01:56] faced by the Bamyan Justice Directorate and issued necessary
[00:01:59] instructions to address the problems.
[00:02:01] A
[00:02:05] high-level Iranian delegation led by Iran's Minister of
[00:02:09] Agriculture, Reza Nouri, arrived in Kabul for talks with the officials of the
[00:02:13] Afghanistan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock.
[00:02:16] The delegation includes several deputy ministers and members of the
[00:02:20] ministry's technical teams. During their visit, the minister and
[00:02:24] his delegation are expected to meet with Afghanistan's Minister of Agriculture,
[00:02:27] Irrigation, Livestock,
[00:02:30] and other Islamic Emirate officials to discuss expanding
[00:02:34] cooperation in agriculture and livestock, exchanging
[00:02:37] expertise and strengthening bilateral
[00:02:40] relations.
[00:02:44] A meeting chaired by Kabul Governor was held
[00:02:48] with the officials of the Kabul Security, Intelligence and Defense
[00:02:51] institutions to discuss the security measures for Assad
[00:02:54] 24. The meeting focused on further strengthening
[00:02:58] security in Kabul, ensuring the safety and well-being of citizens
[00:03:01] and taking the necessary security measures for the
[00:03:05] occasion. Relevant officials were also given the necessary
[00:03:09] instructions.
[00:03:12] Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan say that the current system
[00:03:16] was established through 20 years of struggle and sacrifices by
[00:03:19] Afghans, calling for greater public support to consolidate
[00:03:23] it. At the 24th of Assad commemoration, they also stressed that no one
[00:03:27] would be allowed to create division between the people
[00:03:30] and the system. Report: Ahead of
[00:03:33] the fifth anniversary of the Islamic Emirate's rise to power and the withdrawal of the
[00:03:37] US and allied forces from Afghanistan, a flag
[00:03:41] raising ceremony was held
[00:03:43] at a school. Officials attending the ceremony described the current system as the
[00:03:47] outcome of struggle and sacrifice by the Afghan
[00:03:50] people, stressing the need to further strengthen the
[00:03:54] ties between the people and the
[00:03:56] system.
[00:05:00] ethnicity, identity and culture are protected.
[00:05:03] Every year on the 24th of Assad, the Victory Day is
[00:05:06] commemorated across the country with ceremonies held by Islamic Emirate
[00:05:10] institutions and citizens.
[00:05:16] Representatives of the national standards and quality authority of the Islamic
[00:05:22] the International Electrotechnical Commission with
[00:05:24] representatives from the Asian and Pacific countries. During the meeting,
[00:05:28] the Afghan representative called for resolving challenges related to
[00:05:31] timely access to IEC standards due to international banking
[00:05:35] restrictions, expanding payment deadlines, facilitating
[00:05:38] financial transactions and expanding training and capacity building
[00:05:42] opportunities under the partner countries
[00:05:45] program.
[00:05:50] The Chief Executive Officer of the Afghanistan Electricity Company, Mullah
[00:05:53] Abdul Haq Hamkar, held talks with officials of the Russian Power
[00:05:56] Machines Technical Company on the rehabilitation of the power generation
[00:06:00] facilities and the modernization of other equipment.
[00:06:04] Mr. Hamkar said Afghanistan Electricity Company is ready to cooperate
[00:06:07] with Power Machines in conducting initial technical assessments for the
[00:06:11] rehabilitation, equipment modernization and capacity
[00:06:14] expansion of the country's power generation facilities. Meanwhile, the company's
[00:06:18] head of business development says Power Machines plans to conduct
[00:06:22] preliminary technical assessments of the existing
[00:06:25] power generation facilities in Afghanistan and develop proposals for the
[00:06:29] rehabilitation, equipment modernization and
[00:06:32] capacity
[00:06:33] expansion.
[00:06:36] A meeting chaired by Maulavi Abdul Rahman Rashid, Deputy Minister for
[00:06:39] Professional Affairs of the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, was held with the
[00:06:43] participation of the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees and
[00:06:46] representatives of the Kabul Municipality. The meeting
[00:06:49] focused on challenges facing returnees and a proposal to establish
[00:06:53] a camp and corporate vin factory in the Pul-e-Charkhi of Kabul
[00:06:56] city. Meanwhile, the Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees said an
[00:07:00] initial plan for the project has been prepared and that practical
[00:07:03] work will begin soon, once land-related issues are
[00:07:07] resolved.
[00:07:10] The Minister of Propagation and vice and the Prevention of Vice has held a
[00:07:14] training seminar for the officials responsible for guidance and
[00:07:17] outreach instructors, the imams serving in government and non-
[00:07:21] government institutions. During the seminar, Minister Sheikh
[00:07:24] Mohammad Khalid Hanafi called on guidance and outreach
[00:07:27] officials to address the shortcomings and problems of officials
[00:07:31] and employees, regardless of their position, through appropriate
[00:07:35] and wise
[00:07:36] methods.
[00:07:40] Seven people were killed and at least 24 others responded following a Russian
[00:07:44] attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Reuters news agency,
[00:07:48] quoting Russia's Defense Ministry, reports that Russian forces
[00:07:51] targeted various positions and facilities in Kyiv and
[00:07:54] Zaporizhzhia
[00:07:55] cities.
[00:07:59] That was all for now. Thanks for watching, have a good time.
[00:09:51] In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Gul Afghan son of Sher Mohammad,
[00:09:54] resident of Logar province, Barak-i-Barak district, Shaqi village.
[00:09:57] The first stage that led us to Jihad
[00:10:00] was in the year
[00:10:02] 2011, when they had heavily bombed
[00:10:06] our house. In that same year, 2011,
[00:10:10] it was the blessed month of Ramadan, the night of the 27th
[00:10:12] of Ramadan, when they bombed our house.
[00:10:15] I went there myself the next morning. I was the first person,
[00:10:19] the very first one, to go there
[00:10:21] with a few other people.
[00:10:26] When we went there, at the very first stage, we saw
[00:10:30] that our uncle's house had turned into
[00:10:34] a pile of dust. Meaning, he had a two-story, three-story house,
[00:10:37] all of it was destroyed. Everything had turned into
[00:10:41] a pile of dust.
[00:10:44] We went up, and our army told us that
[00:10:47] they had taken out our martyrs. They themselves
[00:10:51] left. When they left, we went up
[00:10:55] to the pile of dust and saw that under a blanket, someone was covered.
[00:10:58] When I saw this, it was
[00:11:02] our uncle's wife, the wife of Mullah Sahib
[00:11:04] Asif. So, we called out there, saying,
[00:11:08] "Bring this martyr down."
[00:11:11] When they took her down,
[00:11:14] under the green trees
[00:11:16] there, alfalfa was grown.
[00:11:19] We saw three more blankets
[00:11:21] remaining. When we went there, we saw
[00:11:25] that three daughters of Mullah Sahib Asif,
[00:11:29] whose ages were 18, 16, and 15,
[00:11:33] had been martyred. We then thought
[00:11:36] he had two sons, so we said two of them had been martyred.
[00:11:39] The house that had collapsed,
[00:11:43] half of it was collapsed, half of it was intact. I knocked on the door and went
[00:11:46] inside, saying, "Let's see who was in this house."
[00:11:50] I went inside, half of the house was gone. Saboor, who
[00:11:53] was buried, was from another house.
[00:12:14] The local people had gathered, and I wasn't in a good state
[00:12:17] there. The local people pulled Saboor out of the
[00:12:20] dirt. They took him away.
[00:12:24] Then we were searching
[00:12:26] for Mullah Sahib's place. Someone named Qari Sahib
[00:12:29] Hajran, he had been martyred right there. He had been martyred
[00:12:33] one courtyard down from the house.
[00:12:36] The main target was actually Qari Sahib Hajran.
[00:12:39] They had hit
[00:12:42] and martyred the Mullah and bombed his family
[00:12:46] right there.
[00:12:48] Then the local people gathered and moved the martyrs to
[00:12:52] our other house. They took them away.
[00:12:55] The people worked on the house there. We fixed the walls
[00:12:58] of the house a bit. Then
[00:13:02] we moved the others to our uncle's
[00:13:05] other house. After that, the spirit of Jihad
[00:13:09] and these things inspired us, and
[00:13:12] we entered this Jihad. We started the Jihad
[00:13:15] first with
[00:13:18] Sadaqat, Sayed Mohammad Sadaqat. We started
[00:13:21] that was
[00:13:25] a group. After we saw the brutality
[00:13:28] of America, how they had martyred these people with such brutality,
[00:13:32] our hearts couldn't bear it. We couldn't bear
[00:13:34] it anymore. So, we
[00:13:36] declared war on the infidels.
[00:13:39] We entered the war,
[00:13:43] we armed ourselves with our brothers.
[00:13:45] For about a year and a half, we were with him
[00:13:48] in the central areas. We were
[00:13:52] doing Jihad there because it wasn't an area where we could expose
[00:13:56] anything. At that time, we were studying, going to
[00:13:58] school.
[00:14:00] Because we wanted to continue our studies, we couldn't continue Jihad in that area,
[00:14:04] so we started Jihad in the central area. We continued Jihad there
[00:14:08] for a long time
[00:14:10] until our brother was captured.
[00:14:12] When Sadaqat was captured, I came back
[00:14:16] to the area and started Jihad with Qari Sahib Munir.
[00:14:19] We were with him for a long time in
[00:14:23] the trenches.
[00:14:55] We were with him for almost 5 years.
[00:14:58] The direct line of Mullah Bahadur.
[00:15:00] At
[00:15:03] that time, our comrade
[00:15:06] was martyred. His name was
[00:15:10] something. Jabir.
[00:15:12] And Istiqamat.
[00:15:15] They were martyred. An American jet
[00:15:18] had come to the battlefield and martyred them.
[00:15:22] They martyred
[00:15:24] them. So, in our own center, there were several raids.
[00:15:27] They had caused brutality. They had hit people's houses and
[00:15:31] caused a lot of brutality there.
[00:15:34] Allahu Akbar.
[00:15:43] When I officially joined the
[00:15:45] Emirate, when I became official, I also became known
[00:15:49] because the government warned us.
[00:15:52] They even warned that they would kill our family.
[00:15:56] Then we said these things don't matter to us. We chose
[00:15:59] a path that after all these
[00:16:03] things, we chose this. It's no problem if our family
[00:16:07] is killed. It's no problem.
[00:16:13] Until it happened
[00:16:16] that it was a night when they had an operation.
[00:16:19] It was the year
[00:16:21] 2018.
[00:16:23] They were ready, their tanks were ready. They had an operation.
[00:16:26] Our comrade said we will attack
[00:16:30] them today.
[00:16:33] That was the day they attacked them. It was a very intense war.
[00:16:37] Our areas were also attacked. One of my
[00:16:41] brothers was with the Mujahideen. He was younger.
[00:16:45] He was martyred. His name was Shaheed
[00:16:47] Rahmat.
[00:16:49] When their war ended, they came home. I was
[00:16:53] at home. They told me that tonight
[00:16:56] there might be a raid, you should leave the house.
[00:17:00] I told them it's no problem because I had left some things at home.
[00:17:03] I said, "I'll transfer these things, Inshallah. I'll
[00:17:07] follow you." He told me not to be
[00:17:11] at home during the night. I said
[00:17:13] okay. At my house,
[00:17:16] there was a rocket with five
[00:17:19] shells, a vest.
[00:17:22] All these things were with me at home. I didn't leave because of this.
[00:17:25] I said, "Let me transfer these things from here so that
[00:17:29] my family doesn't get into trouble."
[00:17:32] I was outside until 8 or 9.
[00:17:35] At around
[00:17:38] 9 at night, I went behind the door. They
[00:17:41] knocked on the door, they called out. The first time I went in,
[00:17:44] I didn't know that I had been followed since morning.
[00:17:48] The first time I went in, we have a main
[00:17:52] door, a large door. There was an explosion.
[00:17:54] When the explosion happened, I turned back to
[00:17:58] pull myself away from the door. I saw that foreign commandos
[00:18:02] had been brought there. So,
[00:18:04] it couldn't be helped, I went inside the house. I had a couple of
[00:18:08] phones with me. I left them in the house. I took off my jacket and other things.
[00:18:12] I saw commandos and foreigners enter.
[00:18:14] When they
[00:18:17] entered, that man said the house
[00:18:21] must be searched. At first, they didn't recognize
[00:18:24] me. They started searching completely. They searched thoroughly. Our
[00:18:28] boys were sitting on the sofa.
[00:18:32] Our brothers were there. One of our sons-in-law
[00:18:35] had come to our house that night.
[00:19:07] People were sitting, they lifted a boy
[00:19:10] from among their children. He
[00:19:13] said, "Is your name Gul Afghan?" I said, "Yes."
[00:19:17] He said, "We've been looking for you for almost three
[00:19:20] years."
[00:19:22] He said, "Where have you been?" I said, "I was in my area, I was working
[00:19:25] there." He said, "We received reports about
[00:19:29] you, about what you were doing in
[00:19:32] the area."
[00:19:34] I said, "I don't know anything about that. Whatever you
[00:20:07] had was in my house." Then that national assembly person said, "This
[00:20:11] is his house."
[00:20:14] They took the house apart, mattresses and no
[00:20:18] fixtures. Mattresses, everything was torn,
[00:20:21] scattered. They had overturned the beds, everything was
[00:20:25] messed up. They had destroyed it. In our house,
[00:20:29] we call it the inner house. They had dug up the stones
[00:20:32] from there. They had completely overturned three houses.
[00:20:36] They
[00:20:50] pulled my family out and took them under the door.
[00:20:53] They beat me there a lot.
[00:20:57] They tortured me a lot. They had turned on a light and
[00:21:00] held it to my chest. He was saying
[00:21:03] something, he was saying, "Hit him."
[00:21:07] I don't know what the foreigners were saying with other things. Well, they
[00:21:10] were talking, but their voices
[00:21:12] couldn't be heard.
[00:21:16] He said, "Tell us what you did with the other things. We have reports
[00:21:19] about you. Many reports
[00:21:22] have come." At that moment, they had
[00:21:25] a connection. They were sending pictures and
[00:21:27] things. This
[00:21:30] intelligence
[00:21:33] had completely identified them. That
[00:21:37] night they hit me hard. Under
[00:21:40] the door, a foreigner had put that laser
[00:21:43] on my chest. He intended to hit me.
[00:21:47] The other one hit me with his shoulder.
[00:22:20] They did things. I saw a voice first.
[00:22:23] He said, "Look, we found
[00:22:26] other equipment, explosive
[00:22:30] materials." I didn't know about that, that it was
[00:22:33] Shaheed Rahmat's, my brother's.
[00:22:36] He said, "I found bullets, 13
[00:22:40] mortar rounds, one missile." They found
[00:22:44] these.
[00:22:54] They took pictures. After that, the foreigners intended
[00:22:57] to detonate them. They had placed the ammunition under him. They detonated
[00:23:00] it.
[00:23:03] Then one of them came and grabbed me from them. He took me aside
[00:23:07] and removed the ammunition from me. They
[00:23:09] themselves came and attached it to detonate. They first
[00:23:13] pulled us out from here. A few
[00:23:16] minutes later, I saw that they had moved the ammunition to the garden here.
[00:23:50] was here. He said, "Where is Khalil's house?" I said, "I just
[00:23:54] came from Iran. I don't know anything about this.
[00:23:57] We are laborers. What do I know about Qari Munir?"
[00:24:00] He said, "We have reports about
[00:24:04] you. Don't deny it. About
[00:24:08] this," he said, "all your reports have come.
[00:24:11] He said, "Don't bother, we have seen that you have been a member
[00:24:14] of the Taliban for several
[00:24:17] years."
[00:24:20] Then we showed them another Khalil. His house was opposite. I
[00:24:24] said, "I know that Khalil, I don't know the other one." Then a
[00:24:27] commander, I don't know what he was, he had a GPS. He stood
[00:24:31] in front and said, "The house next to the mosque
[00:24:34] is Qari Munir's father-in-law's house." Then I went
[00:24:37] there. They blew up that Khalil's
[00:24:39] door. They stuck a mine to
[00:24:43] his door. There were a couple of motorcycles. Two days
[00:24:46] before, they had given the motorcycles. So,
[00:24:51] they pulled out that poor man at night. It was
[00:24:54] around 12 or 1 at night. They pulled them out of their house.
[00:24:58] He was an old man. He
[00:25:01] said, "Qari Munir? I told him, "That's not Qari Munir. He
[00:25:04] isn't anyone. He doesn't have anything. At night, his eyes can't
[00:25:08] see. He said, "He doesn't have a son." I said, "I don't know about
[00:25:12] the others." Then they transferred
[00:25:16] me to the tanks. They had beaten us up. It was
[00:25:50] over. I saw an internal
[00:25:52] message saying, "We will collect more reports from him." He said,
[00:25:56] "Right now, we need him alive. These two must be eliminated."
[00:25:59] Two people came behind us.
[00:26:32] We arrived on Monday. When we
[00:26:34] arrived,
[00:26:37] we were there until morning. In the morning, we were there from morning
[00:26:40] until midday prayer. The Mujahideen fought them there
[00:26:44] for about two and a half hours. After that,
[00:26:48] they transferred us to the camp. When we
[00:26:50] reached the road leading to the camp, the foreigners went towards the camp.
[00:26:54] They handed me over to the security of Logar province.
[00:26:58] They brought
[00:27:01] me to Logar
[00:27:04] province, to the security office here.
[00:27:08] There, the head of security, a fat man,
[00:27:11] was wearing a red
[00:27:14] jacket. He told me that
[00:27:17] they had extracted eggs from a rooster, and I don't know what else.
[00:27:21] Whatever you did, whatever
[00:27:24] you did, you must tell us here.
[00:27:28] I said, "It's no problem. Whatever you say, I'll say, but I'm not
[00:27:31] guilty." He said, "We have reports about you, about what
[00:27:35] you haven't done in the areas of Berki Rajan, Berki
[00:27:37] Barrak." That was it.
[00:27:41] When I said I wasn't guilty,
[00:27:44] I saw the security vest. The vest hadn't exploded.
[00:27:48] I saw the head of security get up.
[00:27:52] He had a whip, all lead. He
[00:27:56] put it on my shoulder and said, "You must tell me
[00:27:59] everything." I said, "I don't know anything."
[00:28:02] He hit me in the face. I said, "Tell me, we extracted
[00:28:06] eggs from a rooster here.
[00:28:08] You must tell me exactly what you did." I said, "I don't
[00:28:12] know." I saw that with that thing he had
[00:28:15] in his hand, he hit me four times on the back.
[00:28:19] "Tell me what you did." I said, "I don't know
[00:28:23] anything about these things that you found. I wasn't
[00:28:26] in Afghanistan at all. I was in Iran, I was working
[00:28:29] as a laborer."
[00:28:32] After that, I saw a few other people sitting on chairs. They had brought
[00:28:36] pictures that we had taken to get rid of lice. We were
[00:28:40] sitting somewhere, someone had taken our picture and sent it to them.
[00:28:43] That's
[00:28:46] when they brought our pictures. After that, they took us to the detention center,
[00:28:49] a place that was a cellar. It was a cellar.
[00:28:53] They took us there for four nights.
[00:28:57] We were there from 10 PM,
[00:28:59] 1 AM, 3 AM.
[00:30:02] He was a very big man, sitting on a chair. He
[00:30:05] kicked me in the chest. I fell off
[00:30:08] the chair. The head of security was sitting far away.
[00:30:11] He said,
[00:30:13] "Your case will be closed. You must give us your final interrogation
[00:30:17] here." I said,
[00:30:20] "I don't know anything else. I don't know about the things
[00:30:23] you found."
[00:30:25] He
[00:30:27] said, "How did you find these things? How were you?" I said,
[00:30:31] "I didn't know."
[00:31:03] He shocked me once. I told him that