RASC News Agency: Marking the fourth anniversary of Taliban rule in Panjshir, the Panjshir Women’s Movement has released a damning new report documenting at least 18 cases of enforced disappearances carried out by Taliban fighters in the province. The report contains the names of individuals who were arrested by Taliban members and transferred to undisclosed locations, with their fate still unknown. Of these, the identities of ten have been independently verified and documented. According to the findings, five of the disappeared had prior military backgrounds or ties to the anti-Taliban resistance. However, the majority twelve individuals were ordinary civilians with no military affiliation whatsoever. The movement stressed that these figures represent only a small fragment of the reality, warning that the true number of disappeared persons is likely far higher than what has been documented so far.
The report further notes that since the Taliban’s initial entry into Panjshir, they have carried out widespread arrests, secret transfers, extrajudicial killings, and systematic torture. The authors argue that these actions are not isolated events but part of a deliberate, centrally planned policy aimed at suppressing Panjshir’s population and extinguishing all forms of dissent. The Panjshir Women’s Movement called for immediate international intervention, urging the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to investigate and hold Taliban authorities accountable. The group underscored the need for independent monitoring of Taliban abuses and appealed to the global community to provide psychological, legal, and media support to the families of victims.
This revelation comes just a day after the Global Panjshiri Organization issued a parallel report on the fourth anniversary of Taliban control in the province. That group accused the Taliban of conducting a systematic campaign of killings, arbitrary detentions, and widespread violence over the past four years, warning that such practices risk plunging Panjshir into a “silent humanitarian catastrophe.” Four years on from the fall of Panjshir, reports of grave human rights violations, restrictions on freedoms, and mounting social and political pressure continue to surface. Human rights activists warn that the silence of international institutions and the inaction of the global community have effectively emboldened the Taliban, enabling them to intensify repression with total impunity.
