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ISKP Issues Warning to Baloch Militants After Deadly Clash
In a new 36-minute video titled “The Mastung Incident and the Conspiracy of the Infidels,” ISKP’s media wing, Al-Azaim Foundation, confirmed for the first time a deadly clash with Baloch militants in Mastung district, located in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The group declared that members of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) will now be among its revenge targets. The clash occurred in mid-March, during which nearly 30 ISKP members from various countries were killed. This marks the first occasion where ISKP has both acknowledged the ba…
Taliban’s War on Books: How Afghanistan’s Vanishing Words Silence a Nation
Since August 2021, restrictions on freedom of expression in Afghanistan have significantly increased. In this speech, delivered at the Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö, Sweden, on May 22, I discuss how recent policies have affected book publishing, cultural production, and access to information in the country. Good afternoon, everyone, Let me begin with a simple but heartfelt thank you. Since the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan and the return of the Taliban to power, my country has largely disappeared from international he…
Exiled Teachers; Taliban Begins Ideological Purge of Afghanistan’s Schools
Since the Taliban’s return to power, the phenomenon of “exiled teachers” has spread across Afghanistan, systematically pushing experienced educators out of the national education system. Dozens of teachers with years of classroom experience have been removed from their posts by Taliban-appointed officials in the Ministry of Education and exiled to remote village schools. Their “offenses” range from lacking loyalty to the Taliban to resisting the group’s ideological influence over school curricula. This forced relocation is seen as a tactic to…
A New Tyrant in the Pamirs: Juma Khan Fateh’s Rule of Fear Over Ismailis
Nearly 150 years after the last local monarchy of Darwaz in the vast mountainous region of Badakhshan, Afghanistan, Mullah Juma Khan Fateh, a 40-year-old Taliban warlord, has emerged as the "Sultan of Darwaz"—a title that speaks to his brutal rule over the region’s religious minorities. Darwaz is located along the Amu River, bordered by Tajikistan to the north and Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province to the south. Nestled in the Pamir Mountains, it was once a small independent kingdom in historical Khorasan until Emir Abdur Rahman Khan …
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