Suicide Attackers Can’t Help Win Over People’s Hearts, Says Pro-Taliban Cleric
Maulawi Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a participant of the Taliban’s Ulema gathering in Kabul, said today that geography can be possessed by suicide attackers and car bombs, but people’s hearts can’t be won with these tactics.
Referring to the Eid Al-fitr occasion, when the Taliban had announced Eid a day before the other Islamic countries, he said that religious scholars first chanted the Eid prayers, and then, upheld their fast again. He called on the Taliban not to issue irrelevant fatwas.
During his speech, he added that the “current Islamic government is unique, but we know that it can’t be like prophet Mohammad’s system”.
On the first day of the event, Maulawi Habibullah Haqqani, chairman of the Taliban’s gathering, asked participants to obey Hibatullah Akhundazada with “firm resolve”.
Most of the speakers of the Ulema gathering have emphasized on supporting the Taliban government.
