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2021-09-01 Afghanistan

Taliban arrests top Afghan cleric who spoke out against insurgents

[NYPOST] The Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
has reportedly arrested a top holy man who had called on the country to resist the murderous Moslem group’s insurgency — sharing a photo of him blindfolded.Maulvi Mohammad Sardar Zadran, the former head of the National Council of Religious Scholars of Afghanistan, was photographed looking forlorn as he sat on the ground with his hands clasped together and a strip of brown material covering his eyes.

The clip was released by the Taliban as proof that it had arrested the outspoken holy man, according to the Pajhwok Afghan News agency.

Zadran had been a religious adviser to runaway President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, ex-president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. When Biden abandoned the country left with a helicopter, four cars, and part of the national treasury...
and had called on Afghans to resist the Taliban as they rose to take back the country, The Times of London said.

His son Samiullah told RFE/RL that his father was forced from his home in Khost and driven away by Taliban fighters on Sunday. There was no immediate word on where he was being held or if he was safe.

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