PESHAWAR: Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, a member of the ousted government, called on the United Nations to impose sanctions on the Taliban for “human rights violation.”
Afghanistan’s envoy to the UN, Ghulam Isaczai, urged the international community not to recognize the Taliban government and to impose more sanctions on its leaders in the interim cabinet, including a ban on their international travel.
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Addressing a Security Council meeting, he said the recent street protests sent a strong message to the Taliban that Afghans, regardless of their background or ethnicity, wouldn’t support the dictatorship. “Therefore, I urge you not to recognise any government in Afghanistan unless it is truly inclusive and formed according to the will of the people.
However, the United Nations chief António Guterres said that the international community must continue to talk to the Taliban. The UN has expressed concerns over Rights violation and rise in violence against media workers and rights activists by the Taliban fighters. The United Nations also said that it is concerned about harassment and intimidation of its local staff.
Yesterday, the Taliban fighters tortured two Afghan journalists and confiscated their belongings. The journalists were detained to stop them from covering the ongoing protests. Zaki Daryabi, an Afghan editor, also shared photos and videos of the two journalists tortured by the Taliban on his Twitter account.
Meanwhile, the director general of the British intelligence agency MI5 has warned that the Taliban’s occupation could boost the morale of so-called British extremists. Ken McCallum said that although the threat of terrorism wouldn’t spread overnight but the Taliban ascend to power can boost the morale of extremists in other parts of the world. He said the UK needed to be “vigilant” against the rise of terrorism. McCallum informed that 31 terrorist attacks in the UK had been foiled in the past four years.