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18 August 2021 The Taliban reportedly fired on some demonstrators in the city of Jalalabad: the Afghan agency Pajhwok reports, specifying that the crowd had gathered in the street with the Afghan flag. According to the agency, the Taliban also beat some cameramen.
Jalalabad, where hundreds of people took to the streets armed with Afghan flags to oppose that of the Taliban, is located in the capital of the province of Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan.
According to witnesses, writes Pajhwok Afghan News, the Taliban fired in the air and then at the demonstrators. The agency also released a video in which a crowd is seen fleeing while some shots are heard. The short movie shows in the finale of the men crying.
#Taliban firing on protesters in Jalalabad city and beaten some video journalists.
#Afghanidtan pic.twitter.com/AbM2JHg9I2
- Pajhwok Afghan News (@pajhwok) August 18, 2021
"Yesterday in khost and today in Jalalabad: people are protesting asking the Taliban not to change the national flag," writes user Bashir Ahmad Gwakh on Twitter. The text is accompanied by a video showing a few dozen people parading in a street waving the Afghan flag. "One participant - adds Gwakh - told me that the Taliban fired but there is no news of any victims". Other users post photographs saying the militiamen fired into the air. "We Afghans - writes another user, Salman Khan - accept that the Taliban govern Afghanistan because we have no choice, but they should not replace the flag.