The reason why Taliban kills Afghan talents (athletes, academics etc.)

Taliban members have repeatedly killed numerous Afghan talents, mostly young people, who were more talented than themselves.

Recently famous Afghan athlete died under mysterious circumstances: The Afghan Bodybuilding Federation under the Taliban administration has announced that Ali Reza Asahi, a two-time world bodybuilding champion, has passed away on 23 January 2025. The Taliban didn't announce the cause of Asahi's death. Ali Reza Asahi belonged to the ethnicity of Hazara and was Shiite, unlike the Taliban, which is an only-Pashtun and Sunni group.

Afghan bodybuilder Ali Reza Asahi

The reasons behind Taliban's silent terrorism against Afghans could be:

1) envy, as the Taliban members are only trained in terrorism but have no other skills. The Taliban systematically persecutes young talents, which don't belong to the Pashtun ethnicity, and are in particular Tajik or Hazara Afghans. The Taliban oppresses the non-Pashtun population of Afghanistan sytematically.

2) Taliban members feel threatened by journalists and athletes, who usually are opposed to the illiterate and backward Taliban leaders. There's still an insurgence against the terrorist group, in particular in the north of Afghanistan.

3) Taliban get orders by foreign intelligence, in particular by that of China, Pakistan (the founder of the Taliban), Arab Gulf states, or by intelligence of other countries.

The same intelligence which helped the Taliban killing the resistance leaders Akmal Amir and Khair Mohammad Andarabi, are responsible when Taliban cracks down on journalists or kill Afghans. Taliban supporters around the globe are getting increasingly nervous. In their latest move, the Taliban increased their pressure on Afghan journalists, while foreign pro-Taliban YouTubers are allowed free travels inside Afghanistan to promote the terrorist group.

Taliban raided and shut down Radio Begum, a Kabul-based station focused on women’s issues, on 4 February 2024 as part of a broader crackdown on independent journalism.

On 5 February 2025 it was reported that two National Resistance Front (NRF) members were killed and three others were arrested following a clash with the Taliban in Parwan Province. Local sources noted that the National Resistance Front members wanted to attack the first Taliban security zone, but were ambushed by Taliban fighters. This comes after the NRF could previously announce multiple successes against the Taliban. It seems that the Taliban requested help from their foreign friends, i.e. foreign intelligence.
The Guardian reported on 3 February 2025 about an internal fight between different Taliban factions: "After this speech, and reports of Stanikzai criticising him, the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, allegedly ordered the minister’s arrest and issued a travel ban, which pushed Stanikzai to leave Afghanistan for the United Arab Emirates."
After this speech, and reports of Stanikzai criticising him, the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, allegedly ordered the minister’s arrest and issued a travel ban, which pushed Stanikzai to leave Afghanistan for the United Arab Emirates. Any internal fight between the different Taliban factions or any fight between Taliban and Pakistan could be a show to mislead the resistance. How could Pakistan fight the Taliban, while it has invested so much to help the terrorist group take over Afghanistan?

Many Afghan academics and elites have left Afghanistan, as soon as the Taliban captured Kabul in August 2021. Among them is the famous MMA fighter Wahed Nezhand. And still they live in fear, as there are many violent supporters of the Taliban living outside of Afghanistan. Many others who could not flee the Taliban were imprisoned or executed by the Taliban group.