Taliban Conduct Raids At Closed Indian Embassies, Take Away Parked Vehicles: Reports
Kabul: The Taliban conducted raids at the closed Indian consulates in Kandahar and Herat on Wednesday, as per reports. Reports from Kandahar reveal that Taliban militants broke the locks of the Indian consulate and searched cupboards before taking away parked diplomatic vehicles with them.
Details of what’s happening to the Indian consulate in Jalalabad and the mission in Kabul are not available.
According to reports in Kabul, about 6,000 cadres of the Haqqani network have taken control of the capital city, which is led by Anas Haqqani, the head of the terrorist group and brother of Taliban deputy leader Sirajuddin Haqqani.
While Anas Haqqani met with former president Hamid Karzai, chairman HCNR Abdullah Abdullah and Hizb-e-Islami veteran Gulbuddin Hetkamatyar, it is understood that the activities of both Karzai and Abdullah are restricted and controlled by the Taliban.
Talks are underway for both Karzai and Abdullah to formally hand over power to Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar at an event at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Sirajuddin Haqqani is said to have been passing on instructions from Quetta, where the Quetta Shura, the council of Taliban leaders, is located.
India barely evacuated embassy staff in two C-17 aircraft of the Indian Air Force this week. India’s ambassador to Afghanistan was also brought back as the Taliban scrambled to evacuate diplomats and civilians from the country after the takeover. Some Indian nationals are still in Kabul and waiting for their exit.
Since seizing power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have been assuring locals that there will be no “revenge”. However, there are fears that the group has changed little since the 1990s when it first ruled Afghanistan with an iron fist.
A report said that “there are currently a significant number of individuals targeted by the Taliban and the threat is clear.”
“It is in writing that, unless they give themselves in, the Taliban will arrest and prosecute, interrogate and punish family members on behalf of those individuals,” further read the report.
The report warned that anyone on the Taliban’s blacklist was in severe danger and that there could be mass executions.
(With Reuters Inputs)
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