Rise of Taliban adversely impacts South Asia: Report – Times of India

Kabul: As the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating day by day, there are reports that radical Islam is emerging in Bangladesh, Pakistan and even India. Taliban capture Afghanistan, said a media report.
Writing in The JCA, a political analyst, Rachel Avram cited an interview of Vishwa Hindu Sangharsh Samiti President Shipan Kumar Basu where she said that rise of taliban The situation is expected to worsen after coming to power.
“In the past few weeks, extremist Muslims have carried out barbaric attacks on Hindus by placing Quran in Hindu Puja Mandaps (temporary places of worship). Even those from the Buddhist community were not spared. In more than 31 districts, due to false blasphemy rumours, Hindu idols were vandalized, Hindu houses were attacked and looted, and many Hindu women were gang-raped,” Basu said.
From Basu’s point of view, Bangladesh has always been linked to Afghanistan’s development – and the rise of the Taliban there has fueled radicalism in Bangladesh, whose government was already pampering radical Islamists, the report said. stated in.
Reportedly, earlier this week, radical Islamists clashed with police on their way to the capital city of Pakistan. These riots, which resulted in the death of some police officers, resulted in the government releasing 350 banned Islamic activists.
There are also reports of Pakistani cricketers praising radical Islam and promoting bigotry against non-Muslims. A recent Gallup poll found that 55 percent of Pakistanis would support the establishment of a similarly radical Islamic government Taliban in Afghanistan, stated in the report.
And the situation in Afghanistan itself is getting worse day by day, increasing the chances that this kind of radicalization will affect the entire region.
Meanwhile, the European Parliament recently held an international conference on the “state of women’s rights in afghanistan after Taliban takeover
The conference was organized by the famous feminist Manel Masalmi. human rights worker.
At the conference, one of the speakers was the former Afghan mayor of Maidan Shar, Zarifa Ghafri. Ghafari declared: “Afghanistan has changed drastically in the past few weeks. Since the Taliban illegally seized power on 15 August 2021, it has taken the narrative of a ‘moderate Taliban’ to gain recognition from the international community. building,” J. CA reported.
According to Ghafari, “It is becoming increasingly clear that Taliban 2.0 is about to get worse, as its worldview remains unchanged, rooted in medieval ideologies, especially on the important issue of women’s rights.”
He said, “The new government formed by the Taliban is all men, mostly mullahs included. Even women professionals are absent in the education ministry. The Taliban’s higher education ministry has called for the resumption of the functioning of universities. Only male teachers and students were consulted.” .

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