This organization now plays a major role in the destruction of infrastructure and displacement of the people of Panjshir from their land
Author: Mahfouz
According to a report obtained years ago, part of the British Mine Clearance Organisation (probably the Halo Trust) was located at the entrance to the Khawak Valley in Panjshir, which was generally involved in suspicious activities. Pakistan Intel-Intelligence Service (ISI) introduced and managed the majority of the organization’s staff. Most of them were the residents of Peshawar and Nangarhar, who are also members of the propaganda groups of Pakistan's most famous religious schools.
The institute pretended to clear mines from the roads and lands of Panjshir, Andarabs, and Takhar province. However, the nature of their work was to determine the routes of penetration into the region, to discover the ways of sub-connection of Panjshir lands with neighboring provinces, and in general, according to the previous plan, to prepare the ground for the Taliban* to enter Panjshir. The summaries and conclusions were sent to their headquarters in Peshawar.
Due to the long-term activities of the demining organization in Panjshir during the years of Karzai and Ghani's rule, the ground was prepared to stabilize and mark the location of ammunition depots and key battlefields of Panjshir on the map, and all research and preparations were made for such a day. The discovery of the most important strongholds and ammunition depots of the Resistance Front became possible more on the maps previously prepared by the same organization.
After the fall of Panjshir, when the Taliban moved to the public highway and side roads and government repairs, the organization is at the service of the Taliban, enters the houses of the people with a roadside team equipped with mine detection tools, and shows different places to the Taliban. They show that they dig until weapons and ammunition are found.
These groups act in such a way that the Taliban would order the destruction of the infrastructure of people's houses in order to displace the residents from the area.
The Halo Trust (Hazardous Area Life-support Organization) is a British-American non-political and non-commercial charitable organization that removes waste from war, particularly land mines.
Halo Trust has been operating in Afghanistan since 1988 and currently has 3,000 employees in 18 provinces. On June 9 last year, a masked group in Baghlan province killed 10 employees of this organization. This massacre was carried out by ISIL*.
* The organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities
