Zabihullah Mujahid
8am: Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman for Taliban, has stated that the remarks made by American officials regarding the number of ISIS fighters in Afghanistan do not match reality and that America should stop supporting the group’s campaign. On Friday, Mujahid expressed this on his Twitter page. He stated, “the interest of the US officials in this matter and their grandiosity is aiding and abetting the ISIS insurgents, which should be stopped.” Mujahid claimed that ISIS has already been significantly weakened. Click here to read more (external link).
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8am: According to the latest report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan, 7,886 people have died from the virus. The OCHA report, released on Friday, March 3, shows the number of COVID-19 deaths in Afghanistan up to February 28 of this year. Based on this report, more than 209,000 people in the country have been infected with COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic until late February. The published information indicates that 91.3% of those infected have recovered, while 3.8% have died. 
8am: The motives and ethnic tendencies of the Taliban’s performance are clear as day. This is because they do not oppose picnics that are in accordance with Sharia law. However, when it comes to Nawroz, they are completely opposed to it and deem it forbidden. The Taliban believe that anything they are familiar with can be justified by Sharia, while anything new to them is rejected and deemed unacceptable, even if it carries a functional and civilized message. Pakistani journalist Ahmad Rashid stated that Mullah Omar and his colleagues “transferred the cultural characteristics of their environment, their experiences or inexperience to the whole country, trying to justify their policies through the Qur’an” (Ahmad Rashid, 2000). This approach to the cultural characteristics of the country has not changed and remains the same. In summary, it is clear that the Taliban’s and others’ opposition to Nawroz is more a result of ethnic and identity supremacy than it is rooted in religious teachings. The Taliban think that Nawroz is one of the customs and traditions celebrated in the cities or villages of non-Pashtun tribes, and thus the Pashtuns in the villages are unfamiliar with it. They consider themselves the standard of everything, and because they are unfamiliar with the Nawroz ritual, they have deemed it illegal.