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Afghanistan

Islamic Clerics’ Gathering Issues 11-Point Resolution, Hekmatyar kibbitzes in the background

2022-07-03

[ToloNews] The participants of the holy mans' gathering held at the Kabul Loya Jirga Hall released a resolution comprised of 11 principles, in which they called on the world to lift sanctions on Afghanistan and to recognize the Islamic Emirate.

The resolution did not directly mention the reopening of girls’ schools, but a part of it called for the Islamic Emirate to attend to modern and religious education for men and women.

Resolutions from holy mans' gathering at Loya Jirga Hall:

Participants pledged allegiance to the Islamic Emirate leader.

The international community is called on to release Afghan assets.

The participants called the current government 'legitimate" and called for its recognition.

Support announced for decree of Islamic Emirate on drugs.

Support given for the Islamic Emirate policy to not interfere with other countries and to expect the same from other countries.

Any type of cooperation with ISIS is forbidden.

Armed opposition against the current government is rebellion.

Islamic Emirate called on to attend to religious and modern education, health, agriculture, rights of ethnic minorities and women and kiddies and economic development, within the structure of Sharia.

Islamic holy mans who cause provocations via media must stop.

Islamic Emirate called on to incentivize national unity.

Clerics support the Islamic Emirate’s efforts to facilitate the return of Afghan figures from abroad.

Talking to participants of the holy mans' gathering, the Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund said that the people of Afghanistan want Hijab and an Islamic government and there are less people who oppose it.

Hekmatyar Asks Why Women Not Included in Gathering

[ToloNews] Following reactions over women's absence in the "Gathering of Islamic Clerics",

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, questioned the reasons for the exclusion of women from the meeting, stating the Islamic Emirate should provide a clear response to the people and the world.

According to Hekmatyar, women's rights are clearly recognized in Islam.

Dawn adds more about the rebellion point:

Nearly 3,000 Afghan religious scholars, at the conclusion of a three-day meeting on Saturday in the capital Kabul, declared the militant Islamic State group and others' armed resistance against the Taliban government as "rebellion" and said the country was duty-bound to repel such elements.

A joint declaration issued after the conclusion of the grand moot said: “We call on the nation that the so-called Isis (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is a 'Kharijite'

...an insult that dates back to the Third Caliph, and one the Talibs are particularly fond of...

group of this age that spreads corruption in our Islamic country. Any help or association with them is illegal."

The IS and the National Resistance Front

...NRF for short. They’re the reincarnation of the primarily Tajik Northern Alliance that drove back the Taliban a generation ago...

of Afghanistan are fighting the Afghan Taliban. Another little-known group was involved in a failed attempt on Thursday that targeted the participants of the scholars' meeting but all three suspects were killed by the Taliban special forces.

The participants, as per the declaration, also declared allegiance to Taliban supreme leader Sheikh Hibatullah Akhundzada.

“We renew our allegiance to the Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Sheikh Al-Hadith Hibatullah Akhundzada and strongly support him. We have accepted him as the Sharia ruler of Afghanistan and the emir of the Islamic emirate. And from Allah in all religious and worldly matters we wish you success,” the declaration said.

Akhundzada arrived in Kabul this week for the first time since the Taliban took over control of the country in August last year. He also made his first public appearance since then and delivered a speech on Friday in which he rejected foreign pressure on his government.

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