10 May 2021 - 08:44
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Iranian foreign minister has urged the Afghans to stand united against the terrorists who massacred innocent schoolgirls in the Dasht-i-Barchi neighbourhood of Kabul.
Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Sunday: “Today, we’re mourning the innocent and fasting girls who were killed by ISIL (Daesh) terrorists.”
The foreign minister wrote the terrorists had proven the attack on the girls’ school that they were alien to Islam and humanity.
Zarif believed: “For all those who are the lovers of Islam and Afghanistan, now is the time to end fratricide and unite against the stateless terrorists.”
Also on Sunday, the speaker of Iran’s parliament slammed the assault as cowardly, saying it would have no effect on the will of the Afghan people.
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Blinken Assures US Will Not Disengage from Afghanistan
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday assured that the United States will not disengage from Afghanistan despite withdrawing its troops from the country. We ve also been clear that even as our forces are drawing down and pulling out of Afghanistan, we are not withdrawing, we are not disengaging, Blinken said at a press conference in London with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.
“We intend to be very active diplomatically in terms of trying to advance negotiations in a political settlement between the government of Afghanistan, the Taliban and other key parties,” Blinken said.
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