KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate has welcomed recent remarks by Russian President Vladimir Putin about Muslims, as well as efforts to free Afghanistan’s foreign exchange reserves.
Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate, wrote on Twitter last night that the Islamic Emirate appreciates the recent remarks of President Putin.
Balkhi also underlined that President Putin has said that his country was moving towards recognizing the government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said insulting Prophet Muhammad does not count as freedom of expression.
Insults to the prophet are a “violation of religious freedom and the violation of the sacred feelings of people who profess Islam,”, Putin said on Thursday during his annual news conference, Russian News Agency TASS reported.
Putin also criticised posting photos of Nazis on websites such as the one titled the Immortal Regiment dedicated to Russians that died in World War Two.
Putin said these acts give rise to extremist reprisals, citing as an example the attack on the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris after its publication of cartoons of the prophet.
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