KABUL (SW) – The United States Department of the Treasury, has announced that this country has sanctioned 20 political and military figures from Afghanistan, China, Iran and Haiti, due to human rights violations.
The names of Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, Acting Minister of Good and Prohibition of Evil, and Fariduddin Mahmood, the head of the Afghanistan Academy of Sciences, can be seen in the list of new US sanctions.
In response to this sanction, the Islamic Emirate considers the world’s pressure on the de-facto government of Afghanistan to be ineffective in solving Afghanistan’s problems.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate, tells Salaam Watandar that the sanctions imposed by the US on the grounds of human rights violations are irrational.
He adds: “While the United States itself is one of the biggest violators of human rights in the world due to its support for Israel, accusing others of violating human rights by the United States and then imposing sanctions on them is illogical and unjustifiable.”
The United States government has announced that Fariduddin Mahmood, the head of the Academy of Sciences of Islamic Emirates, due to his support for the exclusion of girls from education, and Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, the acting head of the Ministry of Good and Prohibition of Evil, due to the actions of this ministry, have been sanctioned.
Karen Decker, Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Mission to Afghanistan, republished the news of these sanctions on his “X” user account and wrote that the United States holds the Islamic Emirate responsible for human rights violations.
“Khalid Hanafi and Fariduddin Mahmood are complicit in serious human rights abuses against women and girls in #Afghanistan. We hold them accountable for denying half the #Afghan population their rights.”
However, some of the cabinet members and senior authorities of the Islamic Emirate are on the list of global sanctions and the black list of the United Nations.
Political experts believe that the imposition of new US sanctions on the members of the cabinet of the Islamic Emirate shows that the Islamic Emirate’s efforts to come to terms with the world have failed.
It should be mentioned that in the past two years, the world has always accused the Islamic Emirate of violating human rights and criticized this government’s approach towards women, especially the right to education and work of women and girls in Afghanistan. However the Islamic Emirate has ignored these criticisms and has not paid attention to the wishes of the international community.
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