Taliban dynamited Eagle statue in Baghlan

Published on 6 September 1998

Author(s): The Frontier Post

Type:  News

The hard-line Taliban fighters are reported to have dynamited a statue of an Eagle in Darra-I-Kiyan of Baghlan province in war ravaged Afghanistan on last Thursday. The Eagle statue was installed in the spiritual center of Islaili sect people in Kiyan which fell to Taliban about a week ago. Almost two decades back, the statue of Eagle was constructed with a cost of more than 40 million Afghani by the deposed King Zahir Shah government in Kiyan area of Baghlan province.

The Taliban blasted the Eagle symbol with dynamites and bombs because in their opinion the making of statue of any living being falls under idolatry which is repugnant to the basic principles of Islam. About a week ago the Taliban religious fighters had defeated the Ismaili Militia of General Mansoor Nadri in this area. The General was later fled to Bamyan province where the Iran-backed Shia Hizb-e-Wahdat group is horn-locked with students militia fighters.

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