KABUL
\nAfghanistan\u2019s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Motaqi Monday said that Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s comments over women\u2019s rights in Afghanistan are his personal comments and are not humiliation to Afghan people.
\n Addressing a press conference at the Kabul International Airport after returning from Islamabad, Motaqi said that he believes remarks made by the Pakistani prime minister at the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) summit in Islamabad were not an insult to Afghanistan. He also said Khan\u2019s remarks were critical of the former governments, which may have therefore caused former government officials to feel compelled to show a reaction.
\n\u201cIt was a summit, everyone has an opinion,\u201d Muttaqi told reporters in Kabul when asked about his stance toward Prime Minister Khan\u2019s remarks. \u201cImran Khan criticized the former (Afghan) governments. I think officials of the former governments felt obligated to react, I don\u2019t see (Khan\u2019s remarks) as insulting.\u201d
\nImran Khan, at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting on Afghanistan, said Daesh threatens Pakistan from Afghanistan and so stability in Afghanistan is necessary. \u201cWe have had attacks from (the) Afghan border, from ISIL, into Pakistan,\u201d he said
\nKhan also said that due to years of corruption in the Afghan government, poverty was widespread in Afghanistan even before the former government\u2019s collapse. He also made cultural remarks about Afghanistan.
\n\u201cWe must understand\u2026 when we talk about human rights, every society is different. Every society\u2019s idea of human rights and women\u2019s rights are different,\u201d Khan said. \u201cCulture in Kabul was always different to rural areas just like in Peshawar it is completely different (the culture) to the districts joining the Afghanistan border.\u201d
\nKhan\u2019s remarks sparked a response from former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Afghans on social media. Karzai called Khan\u2019s remarks \u201can attempt to sow discord among Afghans, and an insult to the Afghan people.\u201d
\n\u201cAllegations that ISIS is active in Afghanistan, threatening Pakistan from Afghanistan, is clear propaganda and in fact the opposite is true. The threat of ISIS has been directed from Pakistan against Afghanistan from the very onset,\u201d Karzai added in a series of tweets.
\nMuttaqi said that if the Pakistan PM meant that a weak Afghan government would not be able to control the Daesh threat, that is another issue, and he hopes it will never happen.
\nMuttaqi speaking to reporters also underscored the importance of the OIC summit, saying that the Islamic Emirate called for the establishment of a trust fund for Afghanistan and OIC members agreed.
\nMotaqi further said, Afghanistan will not be a threat to other countries and ISIS-K has not posed threat to any other country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KABUL Afghanistan\u2019s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Motaqi Monday said that Prime Minister Imran Khan\u2019s comments over women\u2019s rights in Afghanistan are his personal comments and are not humiliation to Afghan people. Addressing a press conference at the Kabul International Airport after returning from Islamabad, Motaqi said that he believes remarks made by the Pakistani […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-233976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n