INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) said in response to the UNAMA report on human rights violations,
that none of the claims in the report have been proven or confirmed.According to the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there
has been a decrease in the number of cases of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings compared to previous years, and the human
rights situation has also improved compared to previous years.The ministry said it read the report and rejects it.UNAMA issued a report on
Tuesday stating hundreds of human rights violations had been recorded in the past two years, including over 200 extrajudicial killings of
former government and security forces employees.Speaking to Al Jazeera, the ministry&s spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi said the claims made in
the UNAMA report are not &documented and have not been proven&.Balkhi said human rights violations have decreased compared to the years
before the establishment of the Islamic Emirate.&This is not a citation report, but a report by UNAMA, which was not [done in] cooperation
with the government and the responsible authorities, and the government didn&t attach its own opinions to it, confirming and proving the
It has not been done and there are no details that show how and where the incidents happened,& said Balkhi.He also said UNAMA should have
shared the content of the report with judicial institutions before publishing it, so that it could be investigated.&There are a lot of
contradictions in the report
This report actually points to a significant reduction in targeted and extrajudicial killings
If we compare this report with 2019, the cases of human rights violations have decreased significantly, and this shows that progress has
been made in security and respect for human rights in Afghanistan,& said Bakhi.Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the United Nations
Secretary-General, said: &Despite the announcement of the Taliban (Islamic Emirate) officials regarding the general amnesty, former
government officials and former members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces have been killed
The chief secretary asks the ruling authorities to prevent extrajudicial killings and hold the violators accountable.&The new UNAMA report
was conducted through interviews with hundreds of people who lost their family members in the last two years in Kabul and other
provinces.The post IEA rejects UNAMA report, claims no evidence of violations first appeared on Ariana News.
