Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan have repeatedly said that Afghanistan wants good economic and political relations with all countries in the region world.
According to the IEA officials, the Islamic Emirate wants to go for positive engagement and cooperation with the world countries.
“I’m praising the steps that are being taken towards continued relations with Afghanistan and support to the system, security and stability in the country.
It’s worth mentioning that the Islamic Emirate wants engagement and cooperation, and the world countries should also be cooperative with Afghanistan,” said Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate.
Meanwhile, the world also wants to enter for engagement with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as foreign ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) member countries have stressed on the need for engagement with the Islamic Emirate and stability in Afghanistan.
In the 26th meeting of the ECO’s Council of Ministers held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan late Last week, Pakistan foreign affairs minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that pushing the Islamic Emirate into isolation would aggravate the suffering of the people of Afghanistan.
“Pushing the interim government of Afghanistan to further isolation will further aggravate suffering of the of ordinary Afghans,” Zardari said, stressing on engagement with the caretaker government of Afghanistan.
History has taught us that engagement and negotiations are considered as the only way for the stability in the country and isolation results in instability in the country. Meanwhile, Afghan political experts believe that the world should enter with engagement with the Islamic Emirate and provide Afghanistan with more humanitarian aids.
According to Afghan political experts, the international community should respond to UN General-Secretary General’s recent call for providing Afghanistan with more humanitarian aids. Currently, millions of Afghans are in need of urgent humanitarian aids.
Meanwhile, it was reported that the United Nations Security Council was set to hold a meeting on Afghanistan on Friday. In connection with the possible meeting on Afghanistan set to be held by the United Nations Security Council, the Islamic Emirate’s spokesperson has suggested that the issues being discussed about Afghanistan in the meeting should be based on realities.
The IEA spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid has called on the UNSC to consider the developments and realities in the society in Afghanistan, adding that participants of the meeting should focus on the continuation of contact with Afghanistan and the government of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Afghan citizens believe that good relations between the Islamic Emirate and the world are needed, asking both the Islamic Emirate and the international community for positive engagement with each other as continued engagement is in the interest of either side.
According to the people, it is time that the world enters to good political relations and engagement with the Islamic Emirate and opens their embassies inside Kabul as security has improved across the country and all witness increasing developments in all sectors. They also ask the Islamic Emirate to enter with a positive engagement with the world as the people of Afghanistan are suffering from increasing poverty and unemployment.
This comes amid of increasing efforts towards a new phase between the Islamic Emirate and the world as both sides feel the need for positive engagement with each other.
Shukria Kohistani
IEA wants positive engagement & cooperation with world
