Anti-Taliban protests in the eastern city of Jalalabad over the removal of the Afghan flag have now spread elsewhere in Afghanistan. There were reports of hundreds of protesters taking to the streets over the same issue in Khost province.
As per initial reports, protesting locals removed a Taliban flag and instead hoisted a previous government’s flag in the city, signaling a clear opposition to insurgents’ hardline Islamist rule.
Three people were killed and more than a dozen injured after Taliban militants opened fire during protests against the group in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday. The witnesses said the shooting followed an attempt by local residents to install Afghanistan's national flag at a square in Jalalabad.
The Taliban fighters also later resorted to dispersing the crowd with batons, a report by Al Jazeera said.
Also on Wednesday, a statue of a prominent Shia Muslim militia leader who fought against the Taliban during the Afghan civil war in the 1990s was destroyed in central Bamiyan province, according to photographs circulating on social media.
As per initial reports, protesting locals removed a Taliban flag and instead hoisted a previous government’s flag in the city, signaling a clear opposition to insurgents’ hardline Islamist rule.
Three people were killed and more than a dozen injured after Taliban militants opened fire during protests against the group in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday. The witnesses said the shooting followed an attempt by local residents to install Afghanistan's national flag at a square in Jalalabad.
The Taliban fighters also later resorted to dispersing the crowd with batons, a report by Al Jazeera said.
Also on Wednesday, a statue of a prominent Shia Muslim militia leader who fought against the Taliban during the Afghan civil war in the 1990s was destroyed in central Bamiyan province, according to photographs circulating on social media.
