300,000 Afghan children out of school in Nangarhar over Daesh
An Afghan official says hundreds of thousands of children inAfghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar cannot go to school due to
the presence of Takfiri Daesh terrorists in the area.
The
spokesman for Nangarhar’s Directorate of Education, Mohammad Asif, said
Daesh extremists have forced the closure of 58 schools, leaving some
300,000 boys and girls out of classrooms.
He added that officials
in the Afghan education department are trying to reopen the schools
through negotiations with security personnel, local authorities as well
as tribal elders.
The report comes as Daesh terrorists are also
keeping more than 100 people captive in three detention camps in
Nangarhar Province.
“Daesh has three prisons in Chapari, Takhtu
and Bandar areas, where they have imprisoned 127 people, including
religious scholars, senior local authorities as well as 19 Afghan police
officers,” Achin district chief, Hajji Ghalib Mujahid, said on
September 17.
Nangarhar has been witnessing a rise in the presence of Daesh terrorists in at least seven of its districts in recent months.
On
June 16, the Taliban warned Daesh ringleader, Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, against “waging a parallel insurgency in
Afghanistan.”
The militant group asked the Daesh leader to keep
his men out of Afghanistan by withdrawing his support for those elements
that are recruiting young militants in Taliban strongholds.
Afghanistan
is gripped by insecurity nearly 14 years after the United States and
its allies attacked the country in 2001 as part of Washington’s
so-called war on terror. Although the attack overthrew the Taliban, many
areas across Afghanistan still face violence and insecurity.
This file photo shows Daesh Takfiri militants in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.
