On Thursday, August 4, local sources said that five residents of “Rashak” village in the Pashte Gharghari area of Panjab, Bamyan, have been imprisoned by the Taliban for not handing over their land and houses to the nomads.
A local source, who asked not to be named, said that this incident happened after a delegation representing the Villagers and Nomads Conflict Resolution Commission, Borders and Tribes Directorate, and the Taliban District Administration in Panjab went to Rashak village and asked the residents to hand over this village to the nomads.
According to the source, the local people protested against this request of the board and called it “unfair”.
According to the information of the source and based on the video clip of the meeting of the Taliban delegation with the people, which was sent to VOC News, it can be seen that a resident of Rashak village protested the decision of the delegation and said: “This decision is cruel; we do not accept anything because the commission ignored our request last year (1401); how can you ask me to give my centuries-old inherited land to the nomads? This is morally and conscientiously wrong. I am even ready to go to whomever you call the Amirul Momineen…
In the video clip, it can be seen that the representative of the nomads angrily asks the local resident to shut up and forces him to accept the board’s decision.
According to this video tape, the board members also said that this decision was made in the presence of the governor [Mullah Abdullah Sarhadhi] and no one has the right to disobey.
At the same time, a reliable source from the conflict resolution commission of villagers and nomads in Bamyan said that Mullah Abdullah Sarhadhi, the Taliban governor in this province, by threatening and putting pressure on the members of this commission, started a legal dispute between the residents of the village of Rashak-Pashte Gharghari and the nomads without going through the process of Judicial institutions under the control of this group and had made decisions “completely unilaterally” in favour of the nomads.
Previously, the intervention of Mullah Sarhadhi in the decisions of the conflict resolution commission in favour of the nomads in Bamyan was reported.
A month and a half ago, Mullah Abdullah Sarhadhi ordered the imprisonment of four residents of Rashak-Pashte Gharghari village. They were imprisoned for three days and finally released with the guarantee of the local elders, who went to the Mullah’s office for a fair hearing of their legal case with the nomads.
Mullah Sarhadhi’s office has not commented on this matter.
The start of a fight between the nomads and the people of Rashak
The legal dispute between the residents of Rashak-Pashte Gharghari village in Panjab city and the nomads dates back to 1352 AD (50 years ago).
In June 2022, the children of Awaz and Ali Hossein filed a petition.

According to the claim of these two claimants, in 1973, a person named Awaz, son of Bakhsh Ali, a resident of this village, had a land dispute with the nomads. But the nomads attacked Awaz’s house at night, first kidnapping him, then killing him and vanishing his body.
Sources added that the nomads, in addition to killing Awaz, also looted his property and house and made his family members flee.
According to these sources, although 50 years have passed since that event, Awaz’s relatives and friends still do not know the location of his body.
A local resident with the nickname “Azeem” said that the elders and relatives of Awaz went to the nomads several times in the past years and asked them to show his relatives the location of his body so that they could perform a funeral ceremony for him and, if necessary, dispose of the body according to their religious principles and bury him in the cemetery of their village.
Azim added: “The nomads always refused by force and said that they always denied that they had killed him, while all the residents know that the nomads killed Awaz and ransacked his house.”
Now, after 50 years, with the Taliban regaining power, the Kochis, in collusion with this group, have asked Awaz’s relatives and friends in Rashak village to hand over their land and houses to them and pay the rent for the use of the land for 43 years.

Azim stated: “This fight started when the Taliban came to power in the beginning of 1401. At that time, Sheikh Nazer Jafari, the head of education for the Taliban in this province, was at the head of the conflict resolution commission for villagers and nomads in Bamyan. It is said that Mr. Jafari is a person close to the governor of Bamyan, Mulla Sarhadi. He made a decision in favour of the nomads by accepting a bribe of about 10,000 dollars from the nomads, but the residents of Rashak-Pashteh-Gharghari village, including Awaz’s relatives, did not accept that decision.
Sheikh Nazer Jafari, the head of education for the Taliban, has not said anything about this claim.
Azim went on to say that last year, at the same time as the decisions of the conflict resolution commission, Awaz Ali’s daughters and one son named Hawagol, Golchehra, and Ali Hossein, with the help of their relatives, filed a complaint against five people from Kochi named Wazir Gol, Sha Gol, Niaz Gol, Mirgli, and Haji Nawaz Khan, who were involved in the kidnapping and murder of their father, at the Taliban office in Panjab, and demanded the handover of their father’s body and blood from Kochi, but they did not receive their request.
Azim clarified: “If we consider justice, Kochi’s claim is baseless, because Awaz’s relatives have been the owners of the lands and houses under dispute for at least four generations, and the killing of Awaz and the disappearance of his body by the Kochis is another injustice. Unfortunately, no one pays attention to it.”
Another resident of Pashte Gharghari said: “At that time, if one of the nomads had been killed instead of Awaz, now the nomads would have taken at least 2 million Afghanis from the local people with the support of the Taliban.”
The nomads have not said anything about it yet.
In addition to this, the Taliban also arrested 17 Hazaras from Nahor last month, and it is said that one of them is in severe condition due to torture.
Recently, in a research report, Etilaat Roz found out that since the Taliban regained power in at least ten provinces of the country, the group has supported the nomads in the conflict between the nomads and the villagers.
Anwar Saadat Yar