New Head of Iranian Embassy Stirs Controversy Without Even Coming to Kabul
A foreign ministry official of the Taliban criticised Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran’s special envoy for Afghanistan, for using the word "Afghanistani" instead of "Afghan". Qomi has recently been appointed as the acting ambassador of Iran in Kabul.
Qomi has recently published a report of his meeting with Afghan elites in Iran through his Twitter account in which he used the word Afghanistani instead of Afghan referring to those he met.
In response to Qomi, Al Hanafi Wardak, a twitter account with 75,100 followers which claims to belong to an official of the Taliban ministry of foreign affairs in its bio, said, "As a prominent diplomat in Afghanistan affairs and now acting head of the embassy in Kabul, it is important to know that our identity is Afghan, not Afghanistani."
The constitution of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan called the identity of all citizens of the country as "Afghan", but many citizens of the country believe that "Afghan" is not the national identity of all people of Afghanistan and that the word "Afghanistani" should be used for citizens of Afghanistan.
