Anti-Pakistan protestors who also chanted slogans in support of Panjshir province, where a final ...

Anti-Pakistan protestors who also chanted slogans in support of Panjshir province, where a final anti-Taliban armed resistance appeared to have been finally put down in the past 24 hours, marched from Kart-e Parwan, through Shahr-e Naw, toward Wazir Akbar Khan, escorted by a small group of uniformed Taliban fighters this morning. Protestors were passionate but this photographer didn't witness any incidents of overt violence, nor from the escorting Taliban. When the group, which grew to perhaps 500 and included a significant proportion of women, passed the Iranian embassy and approached Zanbak Square, however, Taliban fighters at the front of the march cracked forced journalists filming and photographing to move away from the protestors, seized some cameras, beating protestors with rifle butts, vandalising a vehicle that was leading the march and then firing a steady stream of automatic weapon fire into the sky, dispersing the crowd. The anti-Pakistan sentiment comes from the well-founded belief that the country that neighbours Afghanistan to the east is behind the proxy war fought by the Taliban. Unsubstantiated rumours have also surfaced in recent days, particularly after the chief of Pakistan's intelligence service, the Inter Services Intelligence agency, of Pakistani involvement in the quashing of the resistance in Panjshir. Taken at 11:00:09