France Demands Immediate Release of Afghan Education Activist Matiullah Wesa

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.

The Taliban had confirmed that six civilians had been killed and 12 others had been injured in the attack.

However, employees of the foreign ministry had confirmed the death of their two colleagues.

This is the second ISIS attack on the Taliban Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the last three months. In the previous attack, at least 20 people had been killed.

ISIS announced that the suicide bomber was Abdul Hamid Khorasani. According to the group, he was able to pass the security barriers of the Taliban and wage the suicide attack.

It seems that the Monday attack was carried out in response to the Taliban's operation against ISIS in Balkh province.

The Taliban intelligence officials had announced on Sunday that the group had killed "three important members" of ISIS in Balkh province.

According to the Taliban, Mawlawi Ziauddin, the previous governor of Khorasan and second in command of Islamic State-Khorasan; Abu Omar Afridi, a member of the Islamic State-Khorasan, and Ustad Salman Tajikstani, a military training specialist of ISIS, had been killed in the Balkh operation.