RASC News Agency: Sources from Ghor province in western Afghanistan report that several imprisoned women are being transferred by the Taliban from the province’s prison to Pakistan. Local sources told RASC News Agency today, Monday, April 29, that the Taliban are sending these widows to Pakistan to spend the rest of their lives there.
The source added that the Taliban are adhering to Pakistani authorities’ policies and are accordingly transporting imprisoned women to Pakistan. According to the source, the incarcerated women in Ghor province do not consent to being sent to Pakistan and seek freedom from Taliban oppression. The source also noted that the women in Ghor’s prison currently endure the harshest possible conditions under Taliban rule, feeling dead inside though physically alive.
Meanwhile, other sources in western Afghanistan, speaking on condition of anonymity to RASC, pointed out that the women’s prison in Ghor has a capacity for 120 inmates but currently houses over 400 incarcerated women. The source explained that the incarcerated women are held for various criminal and non-criminal charges, with widows constituting 10% of the prison population. According to the source, “The Taliban primarily target beautiful girls and women in prison, whom they transfer out of Afghanistan.”
Based on the source’s account, the voices of women in Ghor province and throughout Afghanistan have been silenced by the Taliban, leaving little hope for improvement in their situation. Additionally, a close relative of imprisoned women in western Afghanistan confirmed that the Taliban offer no support to female prisoners. The relative added that the female prisoners express dissatisfaction with the lack of services provided by the Taliban and seek improvement in their circumstances.
According to the relative, life for female prisoners in western Afghan prisons has become challenging, with no hope for comfort or freedom from the Taliban. The relative concluded, “In essence, all conceivable miseries and hardships plague female prisoners under Taliban rule, and every day they pray for death, but neither death nor freedom arrives to ease their suffering.”
Furthermore, Zahra Mahshar, a civil society activist in Afghanistan, told RASC News Agency that living under Taliban control is a struggle for survival in the path of God, as women in this path have demonstrated their resilience to the world. Mahshar stated that the Taliban offer nothing but tyranny and oppression, leaving the people with little hope for a better tomorrow.
Taliban authorities in Ghor province have yet to comment on the matter.
