Girls’ rights to training in Afghanistan might be solved with “the passage of time” and shouldn’t be a “condition for aid” from the worldwide group, a senior Taliban chief has advised Sky News.
Anas Haqqani made the remarks because the Taliban marks one yr because it captured the Afghan capital Kabul and regained management of the nation following the US-led withdrawal after a 20-year marketing campaign.
International funding to Afghanistan was later suspended and billions of {dollars} of the nation’s property overseas have been frozen as a result of Taliban’s human rights abuses and stance on points resembling ladies’s rights.
Asked whether or not it might be a good suggestion for his authorities to compromise on points resembling permitting ladies to have a secondary faculty training in alternate for support, Mr Haqqani stated: “Regarding education, the Islamic Emirates has made its decision clear to everyone that this issue is one of many incomplete issues across the ministries.
“This a part of the training sector must be labored out and accomplished, like all different incomplete plans in different ministries.
“Half of the process is functional, and as you can see, the universities are open, the schools are open for girls up to grade six, and you can see in other provinces that schools are open for girls up to the ninth grade.
“There are not any politics concerned with this, and with the passage of time this subject might be solved. We need the worldwide group and different establishments to not use it negatively, or use it in opposition to us, and it shouldn’t be a situation for support.”
Mr Haqqani additionally stated the nation’s economic system was in a poor state earlier than the Taliban took management of Afghanistan final yr, including it “only benefited those in power and they were sucking the blood out of the Afghan nation”.
He continued: “You can not discover a single hospital with all of the services and high quality providers regardless of the billions of {dollars} the worldwide group and NATO international locations gave to Afghanistan.
“(Healthcare) is not at the same level as Pakistan and Iran, our Afghans are still going to these counties for their medical treatment. And this is all because of the brutal economic system that they had for the last 20 years, and it should not be called a quality economic system but should be called a brutal economic system.”
Mr Haqqani spoke to Sky News as a damning new report stated the US-led withdrawal from Afghanistan was carried out with no planning, was mired in “chaos and confusion”, and resulted in “tragic yet avoidable outcomes”.
The US withdrawal led to the sudden mass evacuation of hundreds of displaced Afghans.
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Reflecting on the one-year anniversary of the Taliban taking management of the nation, Haqqani stated: “This is a proud day for us, we have achieved everything that other nations in the world also celebrate, their Independence Day, and today we have this day.
“This is our absolute proper, and we carried out Jihad to attain this.
“We have paid a very high price for this achievement, we were innocent, and we did not interfere in other national and internal matters, but we were invaded, and we have achieved our rights.”
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