Mottaqi: No women have been arrested in Afghanistan for political reasons
Acting Taliban Foreign Minister says the pressure on women in Afghanistan is propaganda by the enemy and no women have been detained by the group for political reasons.
In an interview with an Indian media outlet, Taliban Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mottaqi said no women had been detained in Afghanistan for political reasons or protests against the group.
In this interview, while emphasizing that there are problems in the field of girls’ education that will be solved, he added that up to 90% of the lessons have been resumed in Afghan schools and girls go to school up to the sixth grade and universities are open to girls and boys.
The Taliban’s acting foreign minister calls the group’s pressure on women propaganda of the enemy, but Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan, expressed concern in a televised interview about human rights abuses, the Taliban’s discriminatory treatment of people and the financial crisis in Afghanistan.
He said that the Taliban were violating women’s rights, barring journalists from operating freely, and that minorities, especially Shiites, were being targeted by terrorists.
In this interview, he called on the international community to send a clear message to the Taliban and the Afghan people.
