Concerns of Pakistan Should Not Be Considered As Animosity, Says Pak Embassy in Kabul

Abdollahian made these remarks during a meeting with Csaba Korosi, the president of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran in a statement said that Korosi too emphasised that countries expect the UN General Assembly to become more active in dealing with global security issues.

During the 77th General Assembly of the United Nations, various countries’ heads and representatives expressed concern about the activities of terrorist groups in Afghanistan.

Shehbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, clearly said at the General Assembly that Islamabad, like other countries, is concerned about the activities of terrorist groups from Afghanistan’s soil.

The Taliban's foreign ministry, however, had issued a statement and said that if the group occupies Afghanistan’s permanent representation at the UN, they can address the concerns of the UN member states.

Nabil added that Afghans are aware who had exported the “Islamic Revolution” and harboured the enemies of Afghanistan.

The former Afghan intelligence chief recently supported the demonstrations of Iranian women with the slogan "Women, Life, Freedom".

He said that in both Afghanistan and Iran, women lead the fight against religious and sectarian extremism.

The recent stance of Nabil has been met with reactions from Iranian foreign ministry official Rasul Mousavi.

In response to these statements of Nabil, Mousavi said on Twitter, "The failure to recognise the main enemy and the inability to prioritise national interests is the main reason for the downfall of Afghanistan's political regimes."

Nabil, however, has replied to Mousavi’s remarks and stated that the emotional views of Afghanistan leaders towards its neighbouring countries have been a grave mistake.

According to Nabil, Afghan leaders have been deceived by common religion, culture, and language when they looked at the enemies and friends in the region.

“There are signals that the Taliban are indifferent to more than 50 per cent of the population,” he said referring to the ongoing ban on girls’ secondary education and growing restrictions on women’s rights and added, “Taliban are willing to risk international isolation. Such a scenario can lead to mass migration and a domestic environment conducive to terrorist organizations, as well as greater misery for the Afghan population. That’s why we have to engage,” he declared. He stated that “continued qualified engagement” was the most realistic way of helping the Afghan people.

Stressing that “patience is running out” for many in the international community when it comes to effectively engaging with Afghanistan’s de facto rulers, the Taliban, Potzel said that the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has monitored a steady rise in security incidents by terrorist groups and others.

“Our earlier warnings about the capabilities of Islamic State Khorosan Province (ISKP) were dismissed by the Taliban”, he told ambassadors.

“But ISKP has demonstrated in the last few months alone that it can carry out assassinations of figures close to the Taliban, attacks against foreign embassies, as well as fire rockets across Afghanistan’s border to attack its neighbours - all while maintaining its long-standing sectarian campaign against Shia Muslims and ethnic minorities,” said Potzel.

Armed clashes are continuing between Taliban security forces and armed opposition groups in the Panjshir, Baghlan, Kapisa, Takhar, and Badakhshan provinces, the UN envoy continued while calling for an investigation into allegations of extra-judicial killings there.

Despite some positive developments over the past few months, the Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan said that they have been “too few and too slow and they are outweighed by the negatives”.

Potzel stated that the per capita income has collapsed to 2007 levels – erasing 15 years of economic growth – and said that the country’s economic situation “remains tenuous”.

Moreover, a continued lack of political inclusivity and transparency in decision-making leave most Afghans without any government representation, he said. “There are no consistent mechanisms for citizens to provide feedback to the authorities and little indication that the Taliban wish to even hear any,” the UN envoy said.

National Resistance Front (NRF), the main anti-Taliban resistance force in Panjshir, has not reacted to the report so far.

The spokesperson of the Taliban police command in Panjshir has said that light and heavy weapons have been seized in the operation.

The National Resistance Front has been fighting against the Taliban mostly in the mountains and valleys of Panjshir province.

He said that Taliban fighters and a Pakistani officer at midnight entered the United Nations compound in Kabul city after capturing it in 1996 and killed Najibullah and his brother Shapoor Ahmadzai.

Dr Najibullah had taken refuge at the United Nations Compound when Kabul fell to the anti-Soviet Mujaheedin in 1992.

On the 26th anniversary of Dr Najibullah's death, Khattak said that in the 1990s, Pakistan had dispatched the Taliban to destroy Afghanistan as a country and a nation, and for the first step, they killed Najibullah.

This former member of Pakistan's senate said that Najibullah wanted an advanced and free Afghanistan, therefore, he had become a national hero for most Afghans.

Khattak added that during their reign in Afghanistan in the 1990s, the Taliban turned the country into a hub for foreign terrorist groups and a playground for major players.

Referring to the current situation in Afghanistan, Khattak urged the world to support the resistance against the Taliban.