Taliban arrest popular Afghan professor critical of govt

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban person arrested a fashionable assemblage prof and outspoken professional of successive Afghan governments, including the caller rulers successful Kabul, the group’s spokesperson said Sunday.

Zabihullah Mujahid said successful a tweet that prof Faizuallah Jalal was being held by the Taliban’s quality arm. The radical accused the prof of “nonsense remarks connected societal media, which were provoking radical against the authorities and playing with people’s dignity.”

The Taliban seized power of Afghanistan past August up of America’s chaotic Aug. 31 departure aft astir 20 years of war. The Islamic militant guerrillas-turned-rulers antecedently held powerfulness from 1996-2001.

In a tweet aboriginal Sunday, Jalal’s girl Hasina Jalal pleaded for her father’s release. “As I corroborate the disturbing news. I inquire for the contiguous merchandise of my begetter Professor Faizuallah Jalal,” she tweeted

Afghanistan faces a humanitarian situation of epic proportions, with the United Nations informing that 90% of the country’s 38 cardinal radical are successful dire need. The apprehension of a salient rights activistic was definite to complicate humanitarian assistance efforts.

It besides reinforced fears that the Taliban are imposing the aforesaid harsh and repressive regularisation arsenic heir past stint successful powerfulness earlier they were ousted by a U.S.-led conjugation for harboring al-Qaida person Osama bin Laden.

TOLO TV, Afghanistan’s largest presumption connected which Faizuallah Jalal was a predominant commentator, tweeted that Jalal was arrested “reportedly for making allegations against authorities departments, a information root said.”

There was nary authoritative effect from the authorities to queries astir Jalal’s arrest.

Jalal is the hubby of 1 of the country’s archetypal pistillate statesmanlike candidates, Masooda Jalal, who ran against erstwhile President Hamid Karzai successful 2004.