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Former Afghan president expresses satisfaction over Iran’s successful elections
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Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed his satisfaction over the successful presidential elections held in Iran last week during a meeting on Sunday with Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran’s ambassador and special envoy for Afghanistan.
In this meeting, further strengthening of friendly relations between Kabul and Tehran and the current situation in the region were also discussed.
Karzai once again stressed the importance of education for girls and boys and considered national understanding to be necessary for lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan.
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OIC and UN special envoys discuss joint cooperation to support Afghanistan
The meeting focused on the efforts of both sides in disseminating the Jeddah Document on Women’s Rights in Islam, which was adopted in November 2023
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The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to Afghanistan, Tarig Ali Bakhit, held discussions on Monday, with the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, at the OIC office in Kabul.
The meeting focused on the efforts of both sides in disseminating the Jeddah Document on Women’s Rights in Islam, which was adopted during the International Conference on Women in Islam held on 6 – 8 November 2023, the OIC said in a statement.
This initiative is being advanced through a workshop that commenced Monday at the OIC Office in Kabul.
Both sides exchanged views on how the OIC and the UN can continue their joint cooperation to support the Afghan people and address the political, humanitarian, and security challenges facing Afghanistan.
In a post on X on Tuesday Otunbayeva said she held “important and constructive discussions with the OIC on the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan, where restrictions on education, work and access to health are causing long-term damage.”
She said “more engagement, and practical action, is urgently needed.”
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Senior IEA officials make first known visit to Japan since takeover
Japan however has been a substantial donor nation over the past few years and has maintained a diplomatic mission in Kabul.
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A delegation of high-level Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials have arrived in Japan, their host Japanese grant-making organization Nippon Foundation said Monday.
This is the first known visit by the IEA since their takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021.
Japan however has been a substantial donor nation over the past few years and has maintained a diplomatic mission in Kabul.
Nippon Foundation meanwhile told Japanese media that the visiting delegation is expected to seek insights for future nation building.
The Japanese government said its Foreign Ministry’s special representative for Afghanistan, Toshihide Ando, also plans to meet with the delegation.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said the visit is “meaningful”.
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Ministry says morality police may not violate citizens’ right to privacy
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The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice said on Sunday that no muhtasib (morality police) is allowed to violate citizens’ right to privacy, warning that violators will face serious action.
Speaking on Ariana News’ Saar program, Saif-ul-Islam Khaibar, the ministry’s spokesman, said that public complaints regarding the behavior of muhtasibs have decreased, which indicates that they are behaving well.
“Breaching the privacy of individuals is spying. It is spying on what the individual does or does not do. Muhtasib does not have this right, and Islam has forbidden this, and Allah Almighty has also forbidden spying. Muhtasib is only responsible when he directly sees a wrongdoing and prevents it,” Khaibar said.
He also emphasized that the ministry has handled thousands of complaints in different sectors over the past three years and, in the area of protecting women’s rights alone, has prevented more than 5,500 cases of forced marriage and Baad practice in different regions of the country. Baad is a method of settlement and compensation whereby a female from a criminal’s family is given to the victim’s family as a servant or a bride.
“We cannot say that currently this is not happening in Afghanistan because it is a large country and the ministry has just started working. It is something that has existed for decades, but now it is not something that people can freely do,” Khaibar said.
He also claimed that some foreign media outlets and intelligence circles spread propaganda against the ministry in order to turn people against the ministry and muhtasibs.
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