The Jamiat-e-Islami Party of Afghanistan has issued a strong condemnation of the Taliban, accusing the militant regime of pillaging the country’s natural wealth while deepening social, political, and economic turmoil.
In a statement released Friday, party leader Atta Muhammad Noor called on the United Nations and international watchdogs to urgently intervene and prevent the Taliban from continuing what he described as the “systematic plunder of Afghanistan’s national assets.”
The party accuses the Taliban of committing rampant human rights abuses, enforcing ethnic discrimination, and engaging in illegitimate and unsupervised extraction of valuable minerals, particularly in Badakhshan and Takhar provinces. Local sources report that mining contracts are being handed out without oversight to companies linked to Taliban loyalists from the southern regions, bypassing local populations and heightening ethnic tensions.
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“This is not just exploitation — it’s targeted oppression,” said Jamiat-e-Islami, warning that the Taliban’s actions are part of a broader plan to enforce hegemonic control over non-Pashtun regions by seizing their resources and excluding them from decision-making.
The party emphasized that Afghanistan’s natural resources belong to all its citizens, and any contracts signed or projects initiated under the Taliban’s rule lack legal legitimacy and moral standing due to the absence of an inclusive, elected government.
Furthermore, Jamiat-e-Islami highlighted how the Taliban’s misrule has led Afghanistan into international isolation, economic collapse, and growing internal resentment. “The Taliban’s governance model is not only brutal and regressive,” the statement said, “but it is also dangerously extractive — robbing the future of Afghanistan to fuel its present-day authoritarianism.”
The party is urging the UN, human rights bodies, and international institutions to launch investigations, halt illegal mining operations, and prevent Afghanistan’s national wealth from being looted by an unaccountable regime.
