Islamabad: The Taliban Foreign Minister who acts, Amir Khan Muttaqi, defended the latest comments on Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan about corruption, terrorism and cultural diversity in Afghanistan, who has created a commotion in a torn country.
Khan had claimed during the main speech at the OKI O meeting on Sunday that Daesh threatened Pakistan from Afghanistan.
“We have attacked from the Afghan border, from ISIS, to Pakistan,” he said.
Khan has stated that because of corruption for years in Afghanistan, poverty was widespread in the country that was locked in land even before the collapse of the former government there.
He also talked about human rights issues, by saying that it must be understood in the context of cultural values that are common in this country.
“We must understand …
when we talk about human rights, every society is different.
The idea of every society about human rights and female rights is different,” Khan said.
“The culture in Kabul is always different from rural areas, as we see in Peshawar where it is completely different from the district on the border with Afghanistan,” said Pakistani PM.
His statement about ISIS and HAM attracted a sharp response from former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other Afghan citizens on social media.
Karzai said Khan’s statement “efforts to sow disputes among Afghans, and insult to the people of Afghanistan”.
“The accusation that ISIS was active in Afghanistan, threatened Pakistan from Afghanistan, clearly propaganda and in fact the opposite was true.
Isis threats have been directed from Pakistan to Afghanistan from the beginning,” Karzai said in a series of tweets.
At Presser in Kabul on Monday, Interim Afghan FM said that he believed in Pakistani PM’s comments in the extraordinary OIC session were not insults to Afghanistan.
Muttaqi said Khan’s comment was critical of the former government and therefore the former official was forced to react.
“Imran Khan criticized the former government (Afghanistan).
I think the former government official feels obliged to react, I do not see (Khan’s comments) as an insult.” Muttaqi said that if Pakistani PM means that the weak Afghan government will not be able to control the threat of Daesh, namely other problems.
“I hope it will never happen,” he added.
The Taliban FM defended Imran against criticism from his people
