KABUL (SW) – The Islamic Emirate has rejected a New York Times report on arbitrary abductions and extra-judicial killings of former government forces and officials.
Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Islamic Emirate and deputy director of publications for the Ministry of Information and Culture, reacted to the US State Department’s annual report on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, calling it inaccurate.
Mujahid said in a statement posted on Twitter that the human rights in Afghanistan had been violated when “the American occupiers and their allies killed up to 200 Afghans a day, bombed people’s homes, and oppressed women and children.” He added people were taken to prisons at night and up to 15,000 political prisoners were held.
The spokesman for the Islamic Emirate said: “Currently, this is not one of the inhumane acts mentioned, but all legitimate human rights are guaranteed and there is no need to worry about this. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has fulfilled and will fulfill all the basic rights of its people.”
Earlier, the US State Department stated in its annual report that with the advent of the Islamic Emirate, Afghanistan has distanced itself from its human rights and democratic achievements and is facing a humanitarian crisis.
The ministry added that with the rule of the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan, human rights in this country have been seriously violated. “The arbitrary detention of women, protesters and journalists, as well as retaliatory killings and the obstruction of women’s political participation in education and politics, are serious human rights violations during the Islamic Emirate,” the report said.
In the report, the US State Department also accused the Islamic Emirate of monopolizing power and said that other factions no longer have a seat in the cabinet.
Zabihullah Mujahid also dismissed the New York Times report on the killing and abduction of former government soldiers, calling it “biased” and far from the truth.
He wrote on his Twitter account on Wednesday evening that the Islamic Emirate has announced a general amnesty and that no member of the Islamic Emirate has the right to take revenge on anyone.
The spokesman for the Islamic Emirate rejected the New York Times report, saying the newspaper had tried to create hatred among the Afghans with all its reports.
The findings of a new investigative report published in the New York Times show that the Islamic Emirate killed or abducted about 500 employees and members of the former government’s security forces in the first six months of its rule.
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