
BILAL SARWARY
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Thinking about ALL AFGHANS who get up each morning and dont have the option of just walking away from it ALL. Ind Scholar @Middlebury 2010. AFGHAN. Journalist.
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His final words were for his mother, his children and the debt he feared leaving behind. This Afghan man was among 14 migrants who died in the Lalo Desert of Nimroz while attempting to reach Iran. Shortly before his death, 34 year old Hayatullah from Badghis province recorded this heartbreaking video, asking that it be shown to his mother and family so they would understand the conditions in which he died. He pleaded for his debt to be forgiven, or asked his brother to repay it. The accompanying image shows his own children at home, unaware that their father was dying in the desert. This tragedy was not only caused by heat and thirst. It reflects desperation, organised smuggling, corruption and the Taliban’s failure to provide security, livelihoods and hope. He died thinking about his family and debt. His children were left waiting for a father who would never return.
BILAL SARWARY127,390 views • 3 days ago
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Afghanistan’s migration crisis is no longer just a humanitarian issue, it is a geopolitical, security and governance challenge. The discovery of 14 Afghan migrants in the Lalo Desert of Nimruz, after they disappeared while attempting to cross into Iran, is another stark reminder of the human cost of irregular migration. Earlier reports indicated that members of the same group had already died from dehydration and extreme heat. Behind every such tragedy is a criminal economy that continues to flourish. This comes as Europe grapples with another migration surge, with tens of thousands of migrants recently reaching Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. Afghan migrants have increasingly been using North African transit routes, obtaining visas to Morocco or neighbouring countries before attempting the dangerous journey into Europe. The reality is that Afghanistan is experiencing a sustained exodus. It is no longer only the poorest who are leaving. Professionals, entrepreneurs, students and entire families are risking everything because they see diminishing economic opportunities and little confidence in the future. Many sell their homes and land, incur substantial debts and place their lives in the hands of sophisticated smuggling networks. These networks are far more organised than many policymakers appreciate. They operate across multiple countries with established recruitment systems, transport routes, financial facilitators and pricing structures for destinations ranging from Iran and Türkiye to Europe, Canada and the United States. While the Taliban leadership has issued decrees against irregular migration and human smuggling, a fundamental question remains: who is facilitating this trade on the ground? Numerous accounts continue to point to the involvement or protection of these networks by some local and senior Taliban commanders & officials. Kabul’s Sarai Shahzada money exchange market is is the key financial hub through which migration-related payments are arranged and settled. This is not simply a migration story. It is a story of governance failure, corruption, organised crime, regional security and human desperation. Over the past year, I have gathered extensive evidence on the organisation, financing, pricing and facilitation of Afghan migration networks. The picture that emerges is considerably more sophisticated and more troubling than is generally understood. The deaths in Nimruz and the crossings into Spain are not isolated incidents. They are different chapters of the same transnational crisis.
BILAL SARWARY119,748 views • 7 days ago

From Strategic Partnership to a Marriage of Convenience The Taliban’s Agriculture Minister is in New Delhi. The agenda is agriculture. The story is much bigger. In 2011, India signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Afghan Republic, the first such agreement Afghanistan concluded with any country. Signed under Congress and upheld by successive BJP governments, it symbolised India’s long-term commitment to Afghanistan’s democratic institutions, constitutional order and people. Then the Republic fell. By November 2023, the diplomats of the Afghan Republic were shamefully forced out of New Delhi, bringing the Republic’s diplomatic mission to an end. India’s long-standing strategic partner was pushed aside, while engagement with the Taliban steadily expanded. This is the same Taliban that attacked Indian diplomatic missions and personnel, including the Indian Embassy and consulates in Afghanistan. Today, its ministers are received with official courtesy in New Delhi. Every state pursues its national interests. But national interest should not silence legitimate questions. The world’s largest democracy, one that should speak about freedom, human rights, constitutionalism and political pluralism, is deepening engagement with a regime under which more than three million Afghan girls remain out of school, constitutional rule has been replaced by decrees, political pluralism has been dismantled, and Afghanistan’s education system has suffered a historic decline. Afghanistan also continues to host numerous terrorist organisations, including groups like JeM and LeT that has been targeting Jammu & Kashmir for years. The irony is difficult to ignore. A government that rightly calls for zero tolerance towards terrorism has entered a marriage of convenience with the Taliban, while abandoning the democratic partner with which it once claimed a strategic partnership. Perhaps this is one of South Asia’s greatest paradoxes: a Right wing Hindutva-led government presiding over the world’s largest democracy normalising relations with one of the region’s most hardline Islamist regimes. History will remember the interests that shaped these decisions. It will also remember the principles that were sacrificed along the way.
BILAL SARWARY36,622 views • 27 days ago

BREAKING: Pakistani Taliban chief Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud has denied reports of his death in a video message, saying he is currently in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal district, where his group controls areas among the Kuki Khel and Qambar Khel tribes. The video appears to show him in a mountainous area, gesturing toward what he describes as Pakistani military posts on a nearby peak.
BILAL SARWARY92,553 views • 9 months ago

During a recent military parade, members of the Afghan Taliban recited verses that included threats directed at Pakistan’s armed forces. The poem reportedly used derogatory language toward the Pakistani military, referring them warning that if Pakistan conducted airstrikes on Kabul again, the Taliban would retaliate by “burning Islamabad” and “raising their flags in Lahore.” The verses further warned Pakistan not to “force the Afghans to relive their history and take up arms once more,” referring to past Afghan conquests under Ahmad Shah Abdali and other rulers who launched invasions into Indian Subcontinent territories that include present-day Punjab in Pakistan, a symbolic reminder of Afghanistan’s martial legacy.
BILAL SARWARY83,085 views • 9 months ago

وحشت در جاده های هرات: کسانی که به ظاهر پاسبان امنیت مردم اند، یکباره چهره های اصلی خود را نمایان میکنند و به جان مردم میافتند. نه حریم شخصی و نه معیار های دینی و فرهنگی را رعایت میکنند. تصور میکنند که افرادی را به گروگان و اسیر گرفته اند. امنیت در نظام طالبان یعنی همین! امنیت نظام طالبانی یعنی هر طالب میتواند هر کسی را که خواست به گلوله ببندد. مانند آنچه در سر پل در برابر یک زن کُرد و دخترش به دست رئیس امر بالمعروف ولایت انجام یافت. امنیت طالبانی یعنی حد اقل ۳۰ زخمی و یک کشته به اثر شلیک مستقیم طالبان به روی مردم و دستدرازی به وجود زنان در روز روشن! امنیت طالبانی یعنی جامعهای اسیر در یک زندان بزرگ که هر لحظه میتواند با تجاوز، دهشت، و قتل و کشتار مواجه شده و هیچکس هم مواخذه نشود.
BILAL SARWARY16,076 views • 1 month ago

میرویس کرزی په کابل کې د افغان ترک له لیسې فارغ شو. د پخواني جمهور ریس حامد کرزي زوی میرویس کرزي په افغان ترک کې خپلې ښوونځي زده کړې بشپړې کړې. د میرویس کرزي د فراغت مراسمو ته د نوموړي پلار او د افغانستان پخوانی جمهور ریس حامد کرزی هم ورغلی او خپل زوی ته یې د فراغت سند سپارلی دی. جلالتماب رئیس صیب Hamid Karzai ، میرویس جان او ټولنې کورنۍ ته یې د زړه له تله مبارکي وایم.
BILAL SARWARY68,027 views • 1 year ago

دغه غږیز پیغام د طالبانو په خپلمنځي ګروپونو کې لاس په لاس کیږي، پکې ویل شوي چې د کابل د نږدې ۱۶ حوزو امرین چې د حقاني شبکې پورې یې تړاو درلود له دندو لیرې شوي او کندهاري طالبان یې پر ځای ګمارل شوي دي. دا راز د طالب مولوي په مشرۍ د عمري لښکر قطعه چې ځینې د طالبانو د مشر شیخ هیبت الله د ساتنې ځانګړی ځواک بولي کابل ته رسیدلی او ځای پر ځای شوي دي. دارنګه د طالبانو مشر هیبت الله د حقاني شبکې له مشر خلیفه سراج الدین څخه غوښتي چې د ځان وژونکو بریدونکو قطعه چې دمګړۍ په خوست کې موجوده کندهار ته انتقال کړي چې لا هم په خوست کې او د سراج الدین حقاني له لوري د انتقال سره مخالفت ښودل شوی دی. دا تر ټولو هغه سخت اختلاف دی چې د حقاني شبکې او د طالبانو د مشر ترمنځ په حساس پړاو کې دی.
BILAL SARWARY80,244 views • 1 year ago

طالبانو د غور د پسابند ولسوالۍ په نورک کلي کې یوه ۱۷ کلنه نجلۍ له خپل کور څخه په زور وړې او خپل یو طالب جنګیالي ته یې په زور واده کړې ده. سرچينې د دغه طالب جنګيالي نوم شاه ولي ښودلى او وايي، چې دا پېښه د غبرګولي په ٤مه، د غور د پسابند ولسوالۍ په نورک کلي کې شوې ده. سرچينه زياتوي، چې کله يې نجلۍ له ځانه سره وړې وه، د ولسوال خيرالله خيرخواه، امنيه قوماندان عبدالحميد خالد، د استخباراتو مرستيال محمد مشفق او د استخباراتو مدير توحيدي په ګډون د طالبانو ټول سيمه ييز چارواکي موجود وو. په دې ویډیو ټیپ کې د نجلۍ د کورنۍ د غړو چیغې او فریاد اوریدل کیږي. Human Rights Watch Heather Barr Kate Clark AAN Afghanistan
BILAL SARWARY105,608 views • 2 years ago

استانیکزی: شرایط تحمیل شده بر زنان خواست شخصی برخی بزرگان طالبان بوده و غیرشرعی است.
BILAL SARWARY61,556 views • 1 year ago

د طالبانو ترمنځ خپلمنځي اختلاف: د وردګو یو طالب خپلو ملګرو ته وایې وردګ ټول مجاهدین دي ټولو قرباني ورکړې خو تصفیې کمیسیون یې فورمې نه تاییدوي. داراز د قیوم ذاکر او ملافاضل ترڅنګ ټول د تېر نظام اربکیان دي، وایې په پنجشېر، پروان او کاپیسا کې دوی داسې ظلمونه کوي چې په کفارو
BILAL SARWARY99,619 views • 2 years ago

Heart-wrenching video from Zainab Alizai, a brave sixth-grade student in Afghanistan. Today marked her last day in school under Taliban's control. Tearfully bidding farewell to peers, teachers, and dreams of education, she shared her ambition to earn a PhD and become Afghanistan's Education Minister. Sadly, her aspirations are stifled as she faces barriers to education. Zainab urges Afghan leaders and the international community to support education, pleading for a brighter future where girls like her can pursue their dreams. The world needs to amplify her plea for a better change. #LetAfghangirlslearn
BILAL SARWARY89,030 views • 2 years ago

Old “veritable arm” amputated. A new one taking shape? That phrase dates back to 2011, when Mike Mullen told the US Senate that the Haqqani Network functioned as a “veritable arm” of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, a remark that echoed through two decades of debate about the role of GHQ Rawalpindi in the Afghan conflict. Fast forward to today, and the irony is hard to miss. Last week, Sirajuddin Haqqani warned that Afghanistan would defend itself against Pakistani cross-durand strikes, accusing Islamabad of bombing civilian areas in Behsud and Khas Kunar, including Gardi Kas village and the Hijrat Abad refugee camp. Days later, another striking development: Haji Mali Khan, the deputy chief of staff of the Taliban army and Siraj Haqqani’s uncle reportedly appeared on the front line and targeted a Pakistani border forces outpost with an anti-armour rocket launcher. If confirmed, it would mark the first time a senior Taliban official has openly surfaced in frontline action against Pakistan. Which raises an uncomfortable question. If the Haqqani network was once a “veritable arm” of Pakistan’s security apparatus, what are we witnessing now? Has that arm been amputated or simply turned? And if so, what new “arms” might be quietly taking shape in the laboratories of Rawalpindi’s security establishment? History offers a sobering lesson: proxies are rarely obedient forever. They mutate, fragment, and eventually follow their own logic. The tragedy, as always, is that the fire being played with is not abstract strategy, it burns villages, and ordinary people. And once that fire spreads, it rarely stays within the lines drawn in Rawalpindi.
BILAL SARWARY20,808 views • 5 months ago

د طالبانو د سوشل میډیا فعال او د دوی کابل امنیه قومندانۍ پخواني ویاند چې په جنرال مبین شهرت لري په یوه انلاین ټک ټاکي مجلس کې یې د خواله رسنیو یو فعال ګواښلی . د خوست یو تن اوسیدونکی (قلیل) چې دمګړۍ په متحده عربي اماراتو کې اوسیږي، د جنوبي افریقا سره د افغان کرکټ اتلانو له لوبې وروسته د په دوبۍ کې د طالبانو قونسل او د نن ټکي اسیا مشر عبدالرحمن فدا سره د یوې ویډیو اخیستو پرمهال له نوموړي وغوښتل چې لږ مسکا وکړي،بیا یې د ګیلې په شکل وویل چې تر کومه له افغانانو سره په دې شکل مخې ته ځئ. د قلیل ددې ویډیو له خپریدو سره سم د طالبانو رسنیز فعال جنرال مبین قلیل وګواښه چې ولې یې د دوی له استازي سره دا ډول چلند کړی دی. نوموړي وویل چې په متحده عربي اماراتو کې داسې کسان لري که امر ورته وکړي، قلیل به همغلته ووژني، دا راز زیاته کړه هغه ټک ټاکران چې په بهر کې میشت او د دوی له اوصولو خلاف فعالیتونه کوي دلته به یې کورنۍ ونیسيترڅو هغوی اصلاح او له دې چارو منعه کړي.
BILAL SARWARY49,042 views • 1 year ago

The Taliban’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir khan Motaqi blamed Tajikistan, Iran, and Pakistan for providing ISKP with fighters, transit route, and sanctuaries. The important question is that why Mutaqi does not close his businesses in Pakistan? Instead, he expanded his business to Iran and Central Asia. Does Mutaqi represents Mullah Haibatullah and his team who enjoys the best relationship with Pakistan and Iran?
BILAL SARWARY52,855 views • 2 years ago