Taliban’s Minister of Education Rejects Complete Ban on Girls Education

Farthing condemned these remarks on Twitter.

In his memoirs, Prince Harry said that during his military mission in Afghanistan, he killed 25 members of the Taliban and described them as "chess pieces being removed from the board".

Pen Farthing was one of the last Britons to leave Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country in August 2021. Later, he returned to Afghanistan and since then has been working in the animal welfare sector.

Farthing's tweet criticising Prince Harry received over 375,000 views, and hundreds of responses.

Pakistan recently detained many Afghan immigrants for illegal stay in the country.

Earlier, the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed concern about the situation of Afghan refugees, especially their families and children in Pakistani prisons.

The detention of Afghan citizens in Pakistan has also drawn criticism from several political figures.

In the past year, with the Taliban retaking control of Afghanistan and increasing poverty, the wave of migration of Afghans to neighbouring countries has intensified.

Potzel met with Ned Mohammad Nadim, the Taliban’s minister of higher education in Kabul.

UNAMA stressed that the Taliban ban on education for women and even stopping them from working for aid agencies will harm all Afghans.

The Taliban recently banned girls from attending universities and other higher education institutions. This decision has faced widespread national and international criticism.

Abdollahian also emphasised on the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan. He has shared his concern about the situation in Afghanistan with his Pakistani counterpart.

According to a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, the foreign ministers of the two countries discussed various issues, including the opening of the Mand-Peshin border market, the visit of Israeli cabinet minister to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the fight against terrorist activities and the publication of cartoons of the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Charlie Hebdo magazine.

Referring to the cartoon of the Iranian leader published in Charlie Hebdo magazine, Iran's foreign minister said, "Islamic countries should not allow some Western countries to insult the holy issues and spread hatred in the name of freedom."

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari also wrote on Twitter, referring to the visit of the new Israeli cabinet minister to Al-Aqsa Mosque, that he condemned this "provocative visit" in a telephone conversation with Iran's foreign minister.

Haqqani wrote on Twitter that those Afghans that Prince Harry had killed “were not chess pieces, they were human beings".

Prince Harry said in his book, parts of which have been published by a number of British media outlets, that he killed 25 people during his second mission in Afghanistan. The member of the British royal family said that when he killed these people, he thought of them not as "people" but as "chess pieces".

However, Haqqani added, “The truth is what you’ve said and our innocent people were chess pieces to your soldiers, military and political leaders. Still, you were defeated in that “game” of white & black squares."

This member of the Haqqani network emphasised, "I don't expect that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will summon you or the human rights activists will condemn you because they are deaf and blind to you. But hopefully, these atrocities will be remembered in the history of humanity.”

According to the Independent daily, this is the first time that Prince Harry, a member of the royal family, mentioned how many Taliban fighters he had killed during his military service.

Anas Haqqani criticised the killing of Afghans by Prince Harry, while the Haqqani network and he has been accused of carrying out the deadliest attacks over the last two decades. As a result of the Haqqani network's complex attacks, dozens of Afghan civilians and citizens have been killed and injured.