The Afghan fundamentalist Taliban regime closed a large gathering of thousands of clerics in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday by asking the international community to recognize their government. The Taliban have ruled Afghanistan since August last year, but so far no country has officially recognized the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as the country is called according to the Taliban.
“We are asking countries inside and outside the region, especially Islamic countries, to recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, release all sanctions, stop freezing funds and support Afghanistan’s further development,” the statement said. clergy. In the statement, they do not address the demands that the international community has made of the Taliban, such as reopening secondary schools for girls. However, they state that they will not interfere with neighboring countries and that neighboring countries in turn should not interfere with Afghanistan.
More than 4,000 men attended the three-day meeting in Kabul. The special meeting is called Great Council (Loya Jirga), where the leaders of the Pashtun or Pashtun peoples make important decisions. The population is the largest in the country with 40 percent of Afghans. The Taliban are a predominantly Pashtun movement.
Afghan Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada was also present. Akhundzada hardly ever comes into the public eye and lives very withdrawn in the southern city of Kandahar. He has been virtually unseen since the Taliban’s Sunni extremists took power in August last year. In a speech Friday, the leader warned that foreigners should not give orders to Afghanistan.