Terrorism Constitutes Serious Threat To Peace in Afghanistan, Says UN Security Council

The French foreign ministry stressed that it supports the efforts of the United Nations Assistance Mission (UNAMA) to release Wesa from the Taliban prison.

The French Foreign Ministry has emphasised that "no society can improve positively by denying women's rights”.

However, Taliban spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed that Wesa had been holding rallies without informing the Taliban government. He claimed that Wesa held open and secret meetings with circles outside Afghanistan and received orders from outside the country.

Pro-Taliban Twitter users have also published photos of Matiullah Wesa attending meetings with Western officials and stressed that Wesa had been working for the right to education for girls at the behest of foreign circles.

Matiullah Wesa has been working for the cause of opening of schools and education for girls in remote areas of Afghanistan for more than ten years, and in this regard, he has met with several organisations and officials.

He had just returned from a trip to Europe, during which he had met many European officials to put pressure on the Taliban to reopen girls' schools in Afghanistan.

Earlier, during a meeting with Tomas Niklasson, the European Union's special representative for Afghanistan, Abdul Kabir had stressed on the Taliban’s commitment to forming an inclusive government in Afghanistan.

The Taliban continues to echo the formation of an inclusive government while representatives of many countries have continuously stressed that the Taliban government represents a single ethnic group of Afghanistan.

In their meetings with the Taliban officials, the United Nations officials and representatives of the international community have emphasised that an inclusive government should be formed in Afghanistan.

Hamid Karzai, the former president who recently visited London, has also repeatedly said that a national dialogue is needed for the future of Afghanistan.

The deputy prime minister of the Taliban has held several meetings with the representatives of the Shia Hazara community members and has repeatedly said that the group will take necessary measures to resolve the challenges of the Shia Hazara members.

Even in a statement issued on Wednesday about the meeting of the Hazara Shia members with the Taliban deputy prime minister, Abul Kabir has stressed that there is no ethnic prejudice under the Taliban and the group will address the Bamiyan people’s challenges.

However, the Taliban’s actions against the Shia communities have been proven otherwise. In one of the cases, the Taliban shut down the offices of Ayatollah Mohammad Ishaq Fayyaz and Ayatollah Mohaqiq Kabuli in Ghazni province in early 2022.

India currently chairs the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, India, and Iran are members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

The members of SCO hold meetings every year to strengthen multilateral cooperation among the member states.

Afghanistan has been a key issue for this Eurasian organisation. The active presence of ISIS in Afghanistan has been one of the major concerns of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

The Taliban announced this week that the group had conducted several operations against ISIS in the Balkh province.

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, ISIS has taken responsibility for deadly attacks in different parts of Afghanistan and has also carried out several rocket attacks on Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

According to Patel, Khalilzad’s views do not reflect the official position of the US State Department.

Patel made the statement in response to a question about Zalmay Khalilzad's statements regarding the political situation in Pakistan.

Khalilzad currently has no official designation, but he actively expresses his opinion on the situation of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran on Twitter.

He has often written posts to support Mawlawi Abdul Hamid, an Iranian Sunni preacher, who has been a critic of the policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

His recent tweets have been interpreted by some Afghan social media users as an attempt to support the Taliban. He has also commented on the tensions between the Pakistani government and former Prime Minister, Imran Khan.

UNAMA also asked the Taliban to ensure Wesa remains in touch with his family and has access to a lawyer.

Wesa had been detained on Monday in district five of Kabul.

At the same time, Nader Naderi, the former director of Afghanistan Administrative Reforms Commission, said that the two brothers of Wesa, have also been arrested and his house is under siege.

Naderi added that Wesa's mother has been insulted and the Taliban have confiscated mobile phones and the computer of the detained activist.

The arrest of Wesa, who is an education activist, has been met with widespread reactions from human rights activists.