Constructive Dialogue Needed To Resolve Afghan Political Issues, Says Jamiat-e-Isalmi

The Minister of Education of the Taliban has spoken about the progress in the education sector of Afghanistan, while the group has deprived millions of Afghan girls of their right to education and work.

The ministry of education of the Taliban in a statement has quoted the UN special representative in Afghanistan as saying that the UN unconditionally helps Afghanistan's education sector.

This is while the international community has repeatedly called for the reopening of schools and universities for Afghan girls and women in Afghanistan.

However, the Taliban has ignored the international calls and domestic protests of Afghans for their right to education of Afghan girls.

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Higher Education of the Taliban announced that universities will reopen for men in Afghanistan in the second week of March while the group has remained silent on girls’ education.

Earlier, some Taliban officials had indicated that they will provide a solution regarding the education of girls in the next academic year.

Rasul Mosavi, assistant foreign minister of Iran, said that the diplomats change from time to time, but the relations of the nations remain in place.

Mosavi hosted Abdul Qayyum Soleimani, the former head of the Afghan Embassy in Tehran.

The Iranian diplomat said that Iran’s friendly relations with Afghanistan will continue with the defined framework and in line with the interests of the two countries.

Iranian foreign ministry hosted former Afghan diplomates after the country officially handed over the Afghan embassy in Tehran to the Taliban members on Monday.

The decision of Iran regarding the Afghan embassy has been met with wide ranging criticism from Afghans.

Since the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban in August 2021, no one including the Islamic Republic of Iran, has recognised the Taliban. However, representatives of the group have been present in the political delegations of Afghanistan in some countries, including Turkey, Russia and China.

Sources told Afghanistan International that after the explosion, the Taliban cordoned the area and no one has been given access to the area.

Taliban said that two people have been injured in this incident, but sources said that at least five people have been reported injured.

Earlier, Pakistani officials said that if the Afghan Taliban did not act against TTP, Pakistan would intervene to suppress TTP members inside Afghanistan.

In 2022, the Pakistani army carried out an air attack in Khost and Kunar provinces in eastern Afghanistan. According to the Taliban, more than 40 people had been killed and dozens of others had been injured in the Pakistani strike. Pakistani officials had said at the time that it targeted members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.

In a meeting with UN officials in Geneva on Tuesday, Abdollahian said that despite the increase in Afghan immigrants in Iran, Tehran has received little support.

Iran foreign ministry in a statement said, "The Islamic Republic of Iran has hosted millions of Afghan immigrants for more than four decades. However, international support has not been proportionate to the increase in the costs imposed on Iran due to the arrival of Afghan immigrants in recent years.”

Iran's foreign minister has said that after the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, in the last year and a half, Afghan citizens have immigrated to Iran in a unprecedented manner.

He discussed Afghan immigrants’ issues in a meeting with the officials of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Aid, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Iran’s Foreign Minister has also said that unilateral sanctions on this country have had a destructive effect on the motivation of financial sponsors to shoulder the burden of hosting Afghan citizens.

After the fall of the previous government in 2021, thousands of Afghan citizens have been displaced to Iran due to security threats and poverty in Afghanistan.

In the meantime, Taliban’s mines and petroleum minister, Shahabuddin Delawar, stressed that in opposition to the Doha agreement, the US violates Afghanistan’s air space.

According to Delawar, the US is against the political independence of Afghanistan. He emphasised that the Taliban has implemented all the provisions of the Doha Agreement.

At the same time, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the deputy prime minister of the Taliban who signed this agreement with the US, emphasised on engagement with the world in a meeting to mark the third anniversary of the Doha agreement. He added that the Taliban is committed to global engagement.

Mullah Baradar criticised the United States and said that Washington has illegally blocked Afghanistan's assets and does not allow the world to interact with the Taliban.

The Doha Agreement had been signed on February 29, 2020, between the US and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar.