Abdul Salam Zaeef, the ambassador of Afghanistan, in its first term to Pakistan said that no religious cleric worldwide opposes female education in Afghanistan.
In an interview Sibghat Sepehr, Zaeef stressed the need to solve the issue of education.
“The world’s religious clerics have not said anything about this issue of the ban,” he said.
Zaeef called for the formation of a deep political strategy.
“A deeply political strategy- based on which we can engage with the people, world and neighbors. We should have the law, a law whose legitimacy is determined,” he said.
Zaeef said that the engagement of the international community with the interim government will take time, and the international community needs to change its strategy of engagement with the Islamic Emirate. He said that the West faces a dillema in normalizing relations with the Islamic Emirate after criticizing them for so long, and fighting them.
“They will be asked that if the Taliban were (now) good people, why did you fight them this much, why did you spend that much? So that is why it will take some time until they change their strategy,” he said.
Zaeef said that ensuring peace and stability in the country also benefits the regional countries, and he stressed that the Islamic Emirate needs to reach a mutual solution with the neighboring countries for peace in the region.
