Three weeks after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan on August 15, the demonstrations that, without being massive, are multiplying throughout the country, are testing the ability of the fundamentalist militia to manage popular dissent.
Yesterday, a new protest in the capital of the country, in front of the headquarters of the Pakistani Embassy, ended with shots being fired into the air by the Taliban, according to several witnesses to the Reuters news agency and later reflected numerous videos broadcast on networks social.
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The hundreds of men and women - including some children and adolescents - who participated in the demonstration shouted slogans such as "Long live the resistance" and "Death to Pakistan", alluding to the belief that the radical militia offensive was successful thanks to to the support of the neighboring country, which maintains deep ethnic and political ties with the fundamentalists.
During the march, many Afghan women once again demanded that their right to work and study be respected, some with open faces.
In the videos on social networks, it is appreciated how some of these protesters directly rebukes the fundamentalists, who come to point their weapons directly at them.
The images then show the militiamen dispersing the protest with shots, firing rounds into the air with their automatic weapons, and how the panicked crowd runs and tries to find shelter. A witness explained to the BBC network that the guards of a nearby bank opened the garage of the building so that several dozen women took refuge in it. "The Islamic government is shooting at our poor people," a protester later told Reuters.
The Kabul demonstration came the day after Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Masud called on Monday for a "national uprising" of the Afghan people to oppose the Taliban's force.
That same day, the radical militia claimed to have gained control of the Panshir Valley, the last stronghold of the armed opposition against them.
Several protesters from the Kabul march yesterday expressed their support for Masud.
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Hours after the incidents in front of the Pakistani legation in Kabul, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid referred to the demonstrations at the press conference in which he announced the composition of the new Afghan government.
“It was not a demonstration, it was a revolt.
We will not allow it and the media will not be able to cover such protests, "he warned.
The Taliban militants who dispersed the Kabul protest yesterday urged several television crews to stop taking pictures, including that of the British channel BBC.
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