The Taliban have arrested a Kabul university professor who gained national fame for berating a senior official on television, a sign of the intensifying crackdown on critics in Afghanistan
KABUL—The Taliban have arrested a Kabul university professor who gained national fame for berating a senior official on live television, a sign of the intensifying crackdown on critics ofFaizullah Jalal, a professor of political science and law at Kabul University, was arrested Saturday, weeks after
he confronted a Taliban official in a debate on Afghanistan’s largest television network, Tolo. Lashing out at the Taliban’s extremist rule, he called Mohammad Naeem, the spokesman for the Taliban’s political office in Doha, a “terrorist” and a “calf,” an Afghan insult for people of low intelligence.
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