Faced Humiliation And Insults From Group, Says Tajik Taliban Commander From Panjshir

Abdul Hamid Khorasani, an ethnic Tajik commander of the Taliban who is also from Panjshir, said that he has faced unprecedented humiliation and insult by the Taliban.

In a video clip, the disgruntled Taliban commander, expressed that another commander Malek Khan who was also from Panjshir and had joined the Taliban at the outset of the group’s reign in Afghanistan, joined the National Resistance Front (NRF) due to the "ignorance and stupidity" of the Taliban.

Commander Malik and several of NRF forces were killed in a battle with the Taliban in Dare Abdullah Khel of Panjshir province.

Khorasani, who has been constantly expressing his displeasure with the Taliban, accused the group of bigotry and ethnocentrism in a series of video clips he posted on his Twitter account on Friday.

He said that the Taliban "usurped" his house and properties on the order of senior group’s officials while they threatened and insulted his family members.

Khorasani said that members of the Tajik ethnic group, who are also from Panjshir province, are not slaves and hostages of the Taliban.

Khorasani added that he has been tolerant of all these Taliban insults, and if it was anyone else, they would have "either destroyed himself or taken revenge on you".

He asked the Taliban to stop prejudice, discrimination, and ethnocentrism.

Earlier, Mawlawi Mahdi, a Hazara commander of the Taliban, cut off ties with the group and stood against the group for what he called discrimination and ethnocentric policies of the Taliban.

The Taliban announced last year that Mahdi was arrested and killed while trying to escape Afghanistan at the Iranian borders.