Guerrilla of Taliban has developed an online app for Android smartphone to secure more visibility using Internet and wireless technologies, according to Bloomberg on Saturday.
According to the business media outlet, the app was founded out by the U.S.-based Intel group, who monitors social media activities of Jihadist. The app, which uses Pashto language, includes official statement and video of Taliban, which has sought insurgency for more than 14 years after they were ousted in 2001 with the help of the U.S., the news report said.
The app is currently downloadable via Google Play Store.
Bloomberg said the app will further help Taliban's digital campaign, which aims to secure more subscribers worldwide. The move has a website running in five languages including English and Arabic, and Twitter and Facebook accounts which reports everyday about their insurgency. The group's website has been shut down several times by the Afghanistan government, which tried to block their communications efforts, the news report said.
"The app will help Taliban to further psychologically weaken Afghanistan by their propaganda reports,” Jawid Kohistani, an independent Kabul-based security analyst, was quoted as saying by Bloomberg.
Sediq Sediqqi, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, told the news media that he did not know about the app.
