Aug. 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the Afghan Taliban Government has declared this coming Monday, August 15, a national holiday to commemorate the first anniversary of the seizure of power by the Islamist group.
“August 15 is the first anniversary of the victory of the Afghan jihad, led by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, against the occupation of the Americans and their allies,” the Ministry said in a statement collected by the news agency. pro-Taliban Bakhtar News.
This change in the festive calendar contrasts with the elimination of other festivities linked to religions other than Sunni Islam professed by the group. Thus, the Persian Nouruz or the Shiite Ashura festival has been eliminated.
The Taliban militiamen entered Kabul on August 15, 2021 without any opposition after two decades of insurgent struggle against what they considered a puppet government of Washington whose representatives had also fled the country.
Tens of thousands of Afghans then headed to Kabul International Airport to flee the country in the face of the establishment of the Taliban regime and the arbitrary arrests and extrajudicial executions of former public officials.
Islamic State has perpetrated attacks against the new Taliban authorities and also against religious minorities and on July 31 a United States drone killed the leader of Al Qaeda Ayman al Zawahiri, in a bombing in Kabul.
The Taliban condemned the attack as a violation of Afghan sovereignty and have assured that they had no record of the presence of the Al Qaeda leader in the capital.
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