Taliban’s Prisoners Fewer Than Your Executions, Muttaqi Responds to Calls for Inclusivity

Thursday, 08/31/2023

Taliban’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi responded to those countries which are pressurising the Taliban to form an inclusive government and said that the group has fewer prisoners than executions carried out in those countries.

Addressing the Taliban’s Ulema gathering in Kabul on Wednesday, Muttaqi sarcastically questioned those countries and asked, “Do you have an inclusive government?”

"Thousands of people have disappeared in your country, but no one dares to ask about it," he continued.

The foreign minister of the Taliban did not name any country in his speech, but the Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the countries which has been accused of cracking down on its opponents and executing them and has repeatedly asked the Taliban to form an inclusive government.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, has repeatedly asked the Taliban to form an inclusive government in Afghanistan.

In addition to the Islamic Republic, the international community has repeatedly urged the Taliban to form an inclusive government too.

However, during his address at the Taliban’s Ulema gathering in Kabul, the Taliban’s foreign minister, considered the formation of the Taliban regime to be an internal issue and asked countries not to interfere in the affairs of the group.

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