Reports from informed sources in Ghazni province indicate that de facto authorities have expanded their controversial property expropriation campaign, seizing local residents’ lands in the Gul Koh area of Qarabagh district.
According to local witnesses and community accounts, de facto administration representatives moved to enclose and register privately held agricultural and residential tracts under the classification of state-owned property (Emirate land), ignoring long-standing traditional deeds and customary ownership rights.
Pattern of Confiscations and Community Displacement
The takeover in Qarabagh district mirrors an escalating pattern of property disputes reported across multiple provinces, where centralized land commissions target rural holdings and residential townships:
- Disregard for Legal Documentation: Local landowners state that despite possessing valid historic title deeds and decades of continuous possession, administrative confiscation orders are enforced unilaterally without transparent judicial recourse.
- Demographic and Economic Pressures: Property rights monitors note that similar land seizures in Ghazni and neighboring districts have frequently resulted in the displacement of indigenous rural communities, with confiscated tracts occasionally repurposed or redistributed under state directives.
- Suppression of Local Opposition: Attempts by village elders and community representatives to challenge land expropriations have routinely been met with intimidation, coercive threats, or arbitrary detentions by local security units.
Deepening Insecurity Over Property Rights
The actions in Qarabagh underscore mounting anxieties regarding systemic property insecurity across Afghanistan. As the de facto Ministry of Justice continues its nationwide review of residential townships and agricultural land, rural communities face growing economic vulnerability, stripped of their ancestral lands and enduring severe obstacles to legal protection.