INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Contact Commission with the Afghan Personalities of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), said that at least 370 Afghan
personalities have returned to Afghanistan in the past year.The commission&s spokesman Ahmadullah Wasiq told Bakhtar news agency that since
the establishment of the commission, 370 people including ministers, deputies, and members of parliament, national security employees,
journalists and prominent political figures have returned to the country.According to Wasiq, the commission was created based on an order by
the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate, and that as long as there are Afghans living outside the country, the commission will work to get
them home.We have announced the contact numbers, anyone who wants to return to the country can make contact through this commission,& Wasiq
said.In response to a question about whether Ashraf Ghani would return, Ahmadullah Wasiq said: &I must say, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has not
contacted the commission yet.He added that the IEA asked former jihadi leader Amir Mohammad Ismail Khan to stay in the country, but he
decided to migrate abroad.Wasiq says that the Islamic Emirate has given jobs in government to a number of elite and professional people who
returned to the country, adding that there is no problem for them to travel abroad.Wasiq also denied claims that the Islamic Emirate
prevented former CEO Abdullah Abdullah from traveling out of the country.He said: &There are rumors that Abdullah Abdullah does not have the
right to travel to any country; While Dr
Abdullah Abdullah traveled abroad several times and returned again.He said that journalists who left the country have also been invited to
return and that some have come home.Wasiq once again called on Afghans living outside the country, especially politicians, elite and
academics, to stay in Afghanistan and work together with their countrymen to establish a prosperous homeland.The post Over 350 key figures
return to Afghanistan in past year: IEA first appeared on Ariana News.
