RASC News Agency: Reports emerging from Bamiyan province indicate a sharp escalation in Taliban-perpetrated abuses against local residents. According to credible sources, Taliban officials have been engaging in arbitrary arrests, systematic torture, and unlawful detentions, further deepening the climate of fear and oppression in the region. In the latest allegations, Sayed Mohammad Hanif, the Taliban’s police commander in Bamiyan, has been accused of sexually assaulting and exploiting widowed and vulnerable women under the guise of humanitarian aid. Several social media platforms have circulated graphic images purportedly capturing Hanif in the act of sexual violence. This incident is believed to be just a fraction of a broader pattern of Taliban atrocities in Bamiyan, which reportedly include rape, systematic sexual exploitation, and the targeted elimination of witnesses.
Local sources allege that Hanif is not acting in isolation. Mohammad Khan Ghazi, Haji Nizamuddin Sarhadi, and the brothers of Bamiyan’s Taliban governor, Mawlawi Abdullah Sarhadi including the governor himself are reportedly orchestrating a systematic campaign of sexual violence against impoverished women in the province. Insiders confirm that nearly every night, Mohammad Khan Ghazi the governor’s brother perpetrates acts of sexual violence within the former National Army Coordination building. Moreover, Taliban authorities in Bamiyan stand accused of widespread human rights violations, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and acts of systematic torture. The suspicious murder of Hayatullah Lashk, a man who allegedly possessed irrefutable evidence of Mawlawi Abdullah Sarhadi’s sexual assault of a woman, is seen as a calculated move by the Taliban to eliminate any trace of accountability.
According to local sources, Lashk was assassinated on Sarhadi’s direct orders to suppress evidence and silence potential witnesses. The Taliban’s rule in Bamiyan has long been marred by accusations of rape, enforced disappearances, mass repression, and arbitrary detentions, further entrenching a reign of terror characterized by unchecked brutality and systemic impunity.
