RASC News Agency: Local sources from Khwaja Bahauddin district in Takhar report that the Taliban, in coordination with local residents, killed at least three rare pigs. On Saturday, July 13, sources confirmed that these three pigs had entered Lalah Guzar village in Khwaja Bahauddin district, Takhar province. The pigs had suddenly appeared in the village.
According to sources, these pigs had come from the forests around the Amu Darya in a rare occurrence. The sources emphasized that the local residents had never seen pigs up close before. Sources further stated that the Taliban, citing religious prohibitions against pigs, instructed the locals to kill them. Upon hearing the Taliban’s fatwa, the pigs were killed.
Officials from the Taliban’s Department of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock in Takhar have not commented on the incident. Without considering the possibility of capturing the pigs and transferring them to a zoo, the Taliban issued a fatwa to kill them. Local residents mentioned that if the Taliban had not declared the pigs as religiously forbidden, the youths would not have taken action to kill them. They suggested that it would have been better to leave the pigs alone so they could return to the forests or be captured and taken to a zoo.
It is worth noting that excessive hunting, deforestation, destruction of animal habitats, drought, and three decades of war in the country, particularly in the districts beyond the Kokcha River in Takhar province, have led to the extinction of wildlife. Occasionally, animals that stray into inhabited areas are killed by people due to ignorance and negligence.
Previously, a pig had entered an area in Nuristan province and was subsequently killed by youths.
