Afghanistan: Taliban establish commission to purge ranks, bring reforms within military

Taliban on Sunday, 7 November, announced establishment of a commission to purge ranks and bring reforms within military in norrn Afghanistan. According to Tolo News, he of corps in Mazar-e-Sharif, Attaullah Omari, said that new commission has pledged to work on recognising and punishing those who misuse name of Afghan Taliban in north. Separately, officials attending a conference in Balkh’s governor’s office said that commission will work to prevent infiltrators into Islamic Emirate forces from Islamic State. 

Taliban h gained control of Kabul in month of August. Since n Daesh or IS has waged a dely spate of suicide attacks and targeted bombings across multiple provinces and claimed dozens of lives. It is to mention that Daesh h first emerged in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar region in late 2014. Its goal remains to implement Sharia law. y h previously also warned that whoever in world went against Islam and Quran will have to face terror group’s wrath. 

Pro-Daesh and IS terrorists have claimed responsibility for many attacks and bomb blasts in recent weeks. Nangarhar province has seen an increase in fighting, with Taliban undertaking counter-offensives targeting "Daesh hideouts," as regime termed m. Experts believe that most of recruits of Daesh have defected from Taliban branches in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan, seeking an even more extreme interpretation of Islam with more international-centred goals of ‘Caliphate control’.

Military organisations, provincial he of intelligence to le commission 

Now, as IS attacks have been intensified, officials on Sunday said that those who are trying to defame Islamic Emirate will soon be recognised. Omari said, “Let us take first step, let us check se 500 forces, 'who are se forces and where were y in past?”

As per ANI TOLO News quoted Shir Mohamm Sharif, general director of borders at Ministry of Interior, as saying, “ commission is formed [with representatives from] three military organizations, provincial he of intelligence will le commission in every province because purging is duty of intelligence.” 

“We want to purge military ranks of corrupted people, people who have b backgrounds, and those who are aiming to defame government," Latifullah Hakimi, he of commission, ded.

Notably, establishment of commission comes as residents of Mazar-e-Sharif complained that various groups identifying mselves as Islamic forces started house-to-house searches in city. locals have even reportedly complained that targeting killings have increased in region. y informed that at least ten civil society activists have been killed. 

(With inputs from ANI)