KABUL: Because the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, thousands of Afghans had fled to their neighboring countries, Iran, because uncertainty grew in a problematic country, according to media reports.
A former Afghan police who said he did not work under the new Taliban government was one of the thousands of Afghans who had fled the border to Iran in the past few weeks, Voice America (VOA) reported.
Abdul Sunday, the former 22-year-old officer told VOA that he left the country because he “has no hope for the future” in Afghanistan.
“I lost my job, and I was forced to go (Afghanistan) looking for work so I could feed my family,” said Sunday, who worked for four years as a police officer in West Farah Province.
He said, “I don’t know what I will do in Iran, but at least I will be able to find a job there, get money and send it back to my family.” Various sources and eyewitnesses in the Border City of Zaranj, the capital of the Southwest Nimruz Province, have confirmed VOA that after the Taliban Afghanistan takeover, thousands of Afghans, fear of economic difficulties and political abuse under the upward border.
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On Sunday added that many former colleagues in Afghan security forces had gone to Iran.
“Some remaining due to economic problems, but others fled with fear of retaliation of Taliban,” he said.
It was more than a month when the Taliban arrested Kabul after aggressive and rapid progress against Afghan government forces amid the withdrawal of US and NATO troops from the country.
The country fell into the crisis last month after Kabul fell to the Taliban and the government of former President Ashraf Ghani was elected democratically collapsed.
Previously, the Taliban announced “general amnesty” for all Afghan government officials and urged them to return to work, including women in corresponding sharia law.
However, the older generation remembers the ultraconvative Islamic regime that sees the lamentation of lamentation, amputation and public execution during the Taliban government before the US-led invasion that follows the terror attack on September 11, 2001.
The Taliban has ruled in accordance with the harsh interpretation of Islamic law and despite these clothes Have tried to project a greater moderation in recent years, many Afghans remain skeptical.
Also, pointing at the hardline in his new government which oversees a 20-year battle against a US-led military coalition, without a woman who included shows what was in the Afghan store.