The Taliban’s interim defense minister, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, has appealed to the unity of the Afghan people to prevent the country from becoming a «victim of evil foreign targets», although he acknowledged that they should not fall into «arrogance» and «always listen to the legitimate demands of the nation».
«We wish to create a government for all Afghans,» Mullah Mujahid said in remarks delivered Wednesday during an event to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
«In light of this government, we want to live freely and be free from any kind of intellectual, religious or physical invasion. And we should never be arrogant or proud. We should always listen to the legitimate demands of the nation and try to rally around it,» he has acknowledged.
In that sense, he asked for «cooperation» from the Afghan people and thus not only to «make progress» in each of the challenges that the country has ahead, but also to «prevent» any «possible disaster» and avoid becoming, he said, «victims of the evil foreign targets», reports Tolo News.
Since the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan with the lightning seizure of Kabul in August 2021, the international community has launched a series of political and economic sanctions against the new fundamentalist government for, among other things, its persecution of minorities and especially its measures against the rights of women and girls.
Despite their promises not to return to the kind of policies they implemented in the 1990s, the Taliban have enacted new laws to prevent access to education for girls and women, as well as other measures that prevent them from having freedom of movement, or even working in humanitarian agencies, on which almost the entire Afghan population depends.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
