KABUL: The Taliban government of Afghanistan has said that they expect a new era with the United States after the victory of Donald Trump in the presidential election.
According to the report of the foreign news agency AFP, the spokesman of the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdul Qahir Balkhi, said in a statement on the social media website X that the government hopes that the Trump administration will take realistic steps to promote relations between the two countries. will
He said that the government hopes that after the US presidential election, the two countries will be able to start a new chapter in relations.
The spokesman said that during his first term in office, Donald Trump had spearheaded a peace deal with the Taliban and paved the way for the withdrawal of US troops in 2021, ending the occupation of Afghanistan by foreign forces after 20 years. was
It should be remembered that the peace agreement between the Taliban and the United States was signed on February 29, 2020, and Donald Trump was the American president during the negotiations in Doha, the capital of Qatar, and he supervised it, and in these negotiations, the then Afghan government was not included.
Donald Trump’s Republican party criticized President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw US troops as hasty because the Taliban had taken control of Afghanistan while US troops were hastily withdrawing. .
One of the criticisms leveled at Joe Biden was that he withdrew the army while ending the ceasefire without making any conditions to the Taliban under the agreement regarding the withdrawal of troops in the Doha agreement.
Later, the United States did not recognize the Taliban government, and because of this, other countries in the world are not accepting the Afghan government, and the reason for this is human rights, including restrictions on women’s employment and education, and the United Nations He also expressed concern in this regard.
Inamullah Samangani, the head of the Department of Information and Culture in Kandahar, said in a statement on the social networking website X that the Americans themselves are not ready to give a woman the leadership of their country.
In Kabul, former MP Fawzia Kofi congratulated Trump on his victory but criticized the withdrawal of US troops and his lack of pressure on the Taliban government on women’s rights.
He said that as a businessman, he should understand that no nation can achieve long-term development by keeping half of its population from work and education.
