Thousands of people, including many women, demonstrated in Kabul against the Taliban and against Pakistan. According to witnesses on the spot, who have released videos on Twitter, the Taliban have fired: in some videos you can see people gathered and then fleeing, while you hear a close succession of alleged gunshots. In the images released on social media by Tolo News and its journalists, the crowd can be seen parading in the streets, chanting slogans and showing signs against Islamic extremists and Islamabad, in support of the resistance in Panshir.
Sassoli: a humanitarian corridor is needed for the Panshir
«The humanitarian emergency in Panshir is worrying, where the Taliban are crushing the revolt of the citizens in blood. Thousands of people without food or drugs: yes to a humanitarian corridor to give urgent help to those in need ». This is what the president of the European Parliament David Sassoli urges in a tweet.
The US database is a potential repression tool for the Taliban
For twenty years the United States and its allies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases of the Afghan people, with the stated goal of promoting the rule of law, the responsibility of the government, of modernizing the country. Following the takeover by the Taliban, it emerged that some databases are said to be used by Islamic extremists to identify, intimidate and attack Afghans who have worked with US forces. That digital infrastructure, which includes the use of biometrics to verify identities, was built with limited security restrictions so it risks becoming a surveillance tool. People receive threatening phone calls, as well as text and WhatsApp messages, said Neesha Suarez, a US politician and Iraq war veteran who is committed to supporting Afghans who have worked for the US and are attempting to flee the country.
There is little information on another database, used to pay soldiers and policemen: the Afghan Personnel and Pay System contains data on over 700,000 members of the security forces over the past 40 years, according to sources from the dismissed government. Only authorized people can access, so if the Taliban can’t find any they could try to hack it, perhaps with the assistance of the intelligence services of Pakistan or other countries. The US has declared that it has deleted a lot of content with military software, but it remains that the Taliban could access, such as in the databases of the Ministry of Economy with information on international development, the National Statistical Agency, the electoral system, government employees .