Pashtun Jirga In Pak ISI conspiracy, Says Spox For Taliban's Ministry of Virtue & Vice

A spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice called the Pashtun Jirga of Pakistan the work of "ISI contractors and mercenaries" and a "conspiracy" of the organisation.

Without naming anyone, Saif Khyber said that these people were taking advantage of the "compulsions of the Pashtun people".

In a note on social media platform X, he wrote that these people attend jirgas, assemblies and demonstrations and "carry out the mission entrusted to them”.

The Taliban official said that these individuals achieve “facilities, and false heroic titles" in exchange for being the Pakistan intelligence agency, the "ISI's agent”.

Saif Khyber said that "deceiving the people with unnecessary words and baseless criticism in exchange for practical action" is what ISI operatives do.

Khyber is the first Taliban official to make such accusations against Pakistan's Pashtun tribal jirga. The organisers of the Pashtun Jirga in Pakistan have not yet responded to the remarks.

The Taliban official's harsh remarks came after participants of the Pashtun Jirga in Khyber supported the right of Afghan girls and women to education and the formation of an inclusive government in the country.

The three-day Jirga of Pakistan's Pashtuns ended on Sunday with the issuance of the final statement of the meeting.

The tribal jirga officially called on the Pakistani army and militants in the Pashtun tribal areas to withdraw from these areas within the next two months.

Manzoor Pashteen, the leader of the Pashtun Protection Movement, read out the final statement of the National Justice Jirga in the presence of thousands of participants on Sunday evening local time.

In his speech, Pashteen called on the participants of the Pashtun Jirga to ask the Afghan Taliban to open schools to girls and form an inclusive government.