Afghanistan’s meantime Taliban authorities has introduced elevating a unique army unit named “Panipat” — seemingly drawing notion from the 1/3 warfare of Panipat fought in 1761 wherein Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Durrani defeated the Maratha army. Several social media customers referred to as it Taliban jingoism to spite India when they hastily took manipulate of the war-battered country because the US pullout closing year.
The “Panipat operational unit” can be located withinside the country’s jap province of Nangarhar bordering Pakistan. In a latest publish on Twitter, Aamaj News of Afghanistan said the Taliban statement and shared images of masked Taliban squaddies in army uniform, keeping American rifles and parading in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangrahar.
Historical occasions just like the Panipat warfare are regularly mentioned in non secular sermons in rural Afghanistan to arouse people’s sentiments in guide of Muslims in locations wherein they don’t forget them to be in trouble. Kashmir and Palestine arise for dialogue regularly in mosques and seminaries in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The statement drew blended reactions on social media: a few praised it, a few condemned it whilst others made amusing of it. “God willing, records will repeat itself,” tweeted Javid Tanvir, an Afghan. “It’s very funny. It’s very ignorant. I apprehend that this order is formally from Pakistan due to its troubles with India,” some other Afghan tweeted.
A Twitter consumer via way of means of the call Islampaal wrote that “…Hindus must take this as a clean sign. We haven’t forgotten our ancestors. Muskaan sister, we listen your cries”.
An Indian citizen answered on Twitter that this “jingoism is not anything new for the Taliban”. “This genuinely indicates the Taliban desperation for a few reaction. Well, lamentably for them, the MEA won’t reply to such comical token acts. The terror organization must assist Afghans first, in place of doing failed tries to take jibes on Indians.”