Former president Hamid Karzai met Okada Takashi, the Japanese Ambassador in Afghanistan, and urged for a national discourse to reach stability and peace in the country. Karzai has stressed that Afghanistan can achieve solidarity through a national dialogue.
The Taliban have not yet responded to the former Afghan president’s call. According to Karzai’s press office, in the meeting with the Japanese ambassador at his residence in Kabul, they also exchanged views on the education of Afghan girls and the attack at the Kaj educational center.
In the meeting with the former Afghan president, Takashi expressed his condolences to the victims of the terrorist attack at the Kaj educational center.
According to the UN statistics, at least 53 people had been killed and more than 110 had been injured in the suicide attack on the Kaj educational center in western Kabul. Most of the victims in the attack had been female students.
The former president of Afghanistan has also urged the Taliban to reopen schools for female students across Afghanistan.
