The Taliban government is busy planning to take Afghanistan back thousands of years at every moment. The Taliban Shura realized last week that the latest information technology is the invention of Satan, therefore, the Shura took an immediate decision to suspend all internet and communication facilities in the entire Afghanistan. The Afghan government's decision was immediately implemented and the internet service was shut down in the entire Afghanistan.
The shutdown of internet services not only shut down mobile phones and social media platforms, but also suspended landline telephone services. Thus, everything from banking services to air travel was suspended. Earlier, on September 16, Balkh province spokesman Attaullah Zaid announced that internet services in the northern province would remain suspended. A reporter for the French news agency AFP reported that in the first phase, it was decided to suspend internet in Badakhshan, Takhar, Kandahar and Helmand provinces, but then the Shura felt that this evil chargha should be shut down throughout the country. The shutdown of the internet suspended flight operations throughout Afghanistan, including Kabul.
According to a report by a Pakistani journalist based in Karachi, flights from Kabul Airport to Dubai, Istanbul, Moscow, Delhi and Jeddah were suspended. Along with this, the airports of Kandahar, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat in different cities of Afghanistan were practically closed. Due to the internet shutdown, banking services and online education services were also suspended throughout Afghanistan, then after 48 hours it was decided to restore internet services. The US army had laid internet service cables throughout Afghanistan with a capital of millions of dollars.
The Taliban government last month banned the use of books written by women in universities in the name of preventing obscenity and nudity. Under this decision of the Taliban government, 140 books written by women were banned. These books include a book titled Safety in the Chemical Laboratory.
A report from Afghanistan says that Taliban Shura thinkers have identified 680 books that may contain content that is against Sharia law. These include books that are perceived to contain content that is against the policies of the Taliban government. The government has also instructed university authorities that 18 subjects included in the university curriculum are against the injunctions of Sharia law, and therefore these subjects will no longer be taught. These subjects include science and social studies subjects.
The Taliban's banking science subjects include the theory of evolution and human rights, gender development, and the Role of Women in Communication and Women in Society. Ziaur Rahman Oroubi, deputy academic director of the Taliban government's Ministry of Higher Education, told university officials in a letter that a panel of religious scholars and experts had said that books by Iranian scholars were among the books that had been banned. An expert on the Agence France-Presse panel told a British news agency correspondent that books by Iranian authors had been banned to prevent Iranian culture in Afghanistan.
A professor at Kabul University, while reviewing the government's decision, said that now university teachers will have to prepare materials to replace these books, but the question is what quality this material will be. Ever since the Taliban government came to power, its target has been women and minorities. Women have been deprived of the right to study in schools, colleges and universities. Now, with the closure of internet service, this door has also been closed for students who were trying to study online.
Half of Afghanistan's population is women. There are no real figures on the total population of Afghanistan, but according to estimates by experts who research population, Afghanistan's population is between 36.4 million and 49 million. The US Census Bureau says that Afghanistan's population has increased to 49.5 million this year. Poverty in Afghanistan seems to be spreading to the extreme. It is said that two-thirds of the population is living below the poverty line, thus 64.9 percent of the population is below poverty.
International experts estimate that the literacy rate among people aged 15 to 24 in Afghanistan is around 47 percent, but the overall literacy rate is 37.3 percent and the rate among women is around 22.6 percent. In this situation, Afghanistan is facing a severe food shortage crisis. Experts from the United Nations relief agencies say that half of the population of Afghanistan does not get food every day. Due to the UN World Food Program's aid program, there are no deaths due to hunger. A terrible earthquake struck Afghanistan last month. About 2,200 people died in this earthquake and about 3,600 people were injured. Due to the collapse of roads and the disruption of communication channels, aid groups reached the affected areas very late and many of the injured died because they could not reach hospitals immediately.
On one hand, there is destruction in Afghanistan, on the other hand, the Afghan government has failed to control the militants of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and ISIS. These militants have set new records of terrorism in various cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the entire region is facing severe difficulties. Some observers say that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan fighters are ideological allies of the Afghan government.
TTP fighters want to impose the same Sharia law in Pakhtunkhwa as the Taliban have imposed in Afghanistan. Although a statement by the foreign ministers of Afghanistan's neighboring countries, Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan, urged the Afghan government to control these terrorists in its territory and ensure that terrorism does not spread across the border into Pakistan, it seems that the Afghan government is not ready to listen to these neighbors, thus the situation is getting worse. The Afghan government says that the sanctions imposed by the United Nations on Afghanistan are causing problems in Afghanistan, therefore these sanctions should be lifted and Afghanistan's frozen assets should be restored.
The United Nations has imposed these sanctions on the grounds of depriving women of their right to education, mistreating minorities, and sponsoring terrorists. However, instead of giving equal rights to women and treating members of minority communities equally, the Afghan government is taking further steps that make it seem as if the Taliban are making policies to take Afghanistan back 2,000 years. Those who still have high hopes for the Taliban government should be careful. If right-wing parties can convince the Taliban to change their policies, it will be a great favor to the people of Afghanistan and peace and tranquility will prevail in the entire region.
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