Taliban Launches Anti-Election Campaign in Afghanistan
KABUL: (MEP) – Recently the Taliban group in Afghanistan has launched an anti-election campaign after the group’s supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar issued a fresh appeal to his supporters on Friday.
Mullah Mohammad Omar in his latest appeal has reportedly urged his supporters to turn public opinion against the next year’s presidential elections, khaama reported.
A senior Taliban leader and religious cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz quoted by NBC News has said that the Taliban supporters have been tasked by their leadership to urge the public and clerics to boycott the elections next year.
“An anti-election campaign has been launched. I am here to convince the Afghan refugees residing in Quetta not to participate in elections,” Maulana Aziz told NBC while a visit to Quetta, just across the border in neighboring Pakistan.
Aziz further added, “Neither we nor any Jihad forces will participate in any election to be held before the end of the occupation of Afghanistan by the U.S. and its allies.”
He also endorsed suicide bombings on US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, but condemned bomb attacks against Muslims and innocent unarmed people, and called it an act against the teaching of Islam.
“We will fight for hundred years if necessary to free our homeland from the U.S. occupation,” Aziz said.
Maulana Abdul Aziz, 48, is chairman of the 500-member Afghan Ulema Council – a group of Muslim clerics that supports the Afghan Taliban, Hizb Islami and other Jihadi groups. He is from the Zabul province of Afghanistan.
