UN Not Cooperative In Recognition of Taliban, Says Hanafi

Haqqani spoke about the right to education and work of Afghan women during a meeting with Amina Mohammed, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, in Kabul.

While the Taliban believe that the ban on work and education of Afghan women is justified, the issue has caused serious concerns for international humanitarian organisations.

These organisations have said that without female employees, they cannot help women and children in need in Afghanistan.

However, the Taliban's minister of refugees said that the group was not against girls' education, but Afghanistan was a "traditional society" and these traditions must be considered while making decisions.

In the meeting with Haqqani, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, said that the ban on women's education and work will not have good consequences for Afghans.

A high-ranking delegation of the United Nations headed by Amina Mohammed, the deputy UN Secretary General, had arrived in Kabul on Tuesday.

During the meeting with the Taliban officials, the delegation had asked for lifting the ban on education and work of Afghan women by the Taliban.

The Taliban foreign minister criticised the UN’s sanctions and said that the Taliban leaders can’t travel outside Afghanistan.

The meeting of the UN senior official and the Taliban foreign minister took place on Wednesday in Kabul.

The Taliban foreign minister also asked the UN senior official to hand over Afghanistan’s permanent UN representation to the group.

He claimed that the current representative of Afghanistan in the United Nations is not a representative of the people of Afghanistan.

Taliban said that the addicts are being gathered by the order of the group’s leader.

Earlier, it had been reported that Taliban officials are gathering addicts with force and flogging them.

A while after Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, a US-based human rights organisation had reported that the Taliban had burned four addicts alive in Daikundi province.

The Taliban deputy prime minister talked about humanitarian assistance with Madlin Sadler, Chief Operating Officer of the International Rescue Committee (IRC).

According to the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar News Agency, IRC also asked for the Taliban’s cooperation so that they are able to continue assistance to the people of Afghanistan.

In response to the Taliban’s ban on right to work of women, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) had recently stopped its operations in Afghanistan.

IRC has now announced the resumption of its activities in Afghanistan and said that they will continue to provide humanitarian aid.

According to Bakhtar news agency, around 8,700 people, including men and women, work for IRC in Afghanistan.

The Taliban has not shared more details about how these Afghans have returned to Afghanistan. However earlier, mostly Afghan citizens had been expelled from Iran.

According to the Taliban, 26 families are also among the Afghans who have returned to the country.

Last week, the Taliban also announced the return of more than a thousand Afghan citizens from Iran. After the fall of the previous government, many Afghan citizens had migrated to Iran.