Taliban Kill Chiefs in Afghanistan

Facebook pages are plastered with the photos of Jawad Zuhak, Bamyan’s Provincial Council Chief who was abducted last Wednesday and the news of his martyrdom is released today. It is said that this abduction is not by the Taliban, but it is by the local Pashtons or ‘governmental Taliban who are often called 'my angry brothers' by President Karzai'.

Recently, the Taliban in Afghanistan have been doing more anti-human activities not only in some parts but in most parts of the country.
Within the past two months they have killed at least five well-known government functional “Non-Pashton” officials “Sayed Kheli, the Chief Commander Of Kondoz province, Gen. Khan Mohammad, the Chief Commander Of Kandahar Province, Shah Jahan Noori, the Chief Commander Of Takhar Province, and former DEA Chief of Operations Braun and former Deputy Interior Minister and the Chief Commander of Northern zone Police of Afghanistan Gen. Daud Daud” and many other civilians and low-level government officials.

Back to Jawad Zuhak; he is regionally from Bamyan province which has been quite a secure place ever since the Taliban collapsed in 2001 and its all inhabitants are from the ethnic group, Hazara

Jawad Zuhak, The Head of Bamyan Provincial Council

Zuhak had been the body guard of Baba Mazari, the ‘father’ of Hazaras in Afghanistan in 1990s, and after 2001, he has been working in different offices, putting his ultimate effort for the development of policies pursued by the government in central Afghanistan, particularly his hometown Bamyan.  His well organization is always appreciated by the people who know him. So today, by killing Zuhak, Taliban took the life of another significant component of the government of Afghanistan in Bamyan.

Zuhak’s martyrdom in the central Afghanistan shows that Taliban are not only in the south or the north but they are in every Pashton- habitant region. They are going to penetrate into the every secure corner of the country and chief kill all those who work for the government, which is a breathtaking warning/threat to the non-Pashton officials and other citizens of Afghanistan.

These tragedies are happening while the Afghan government has agreed to take the responsibility of keeping the country secure from the U.S and ISAF forces. I am writing this note to remain as a memory that if the U.S and ISAF security forces leave Afghanistan any time soon, then Taliban would make such daily tragedies in everywhere until they get the country back to the situation as before 2001.