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Our country has no problem with any religion: Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that his country has no problem with any religion, the French embassy in Kabul tweeted.
“All religions are freely active in this land. Space is free from the label of shame & disgrace.” the embassy quoted Macron as saying.
Macron also said that France is interested in and dependent on peace and coexistence.
The embassy’s tweet comes after Kabul residents took to the streets of Kabul on Wednesday in protest against Macron’s controversial remarks about Islam.
The protest, outside the French Cultural Center in Kabul city drew cries such as “death to France” and “death to Macron”.
Kabul high school students also protested against Macron’s remarks.
Wednesday’s demonstration came amid a standoff between France and Muslim countries after Macron reacted to the beheading of a French schoolteacher who had shown his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during a lesson about freedom of speech.
In addition to Wednesday’s protest in Kabul, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hizb-i-Islami held a press conference and called on the Afghan government to cut all diplomatic ties with France and boycott French goods.
Despite the outcry by Muslim nations around the world over Macron’s remarks, the French president accused Muslims of separatism and vowed not to censor freedom of speech.
French goods have, however, already been pulled from supermarket shelves in Qatar and Kuwait, among other Gulf states, and in Syria people have burned pictures of Macron and French flags have been torched in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan also weighed in last week and wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg requesting that the social media company ban Islamophobic content on its platform, similar to that in place for the Holocaust.
After Khan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also called on the nation to boycott French goods.
Speaking in a televised speech in Ankara Erdogan said: “Never give credit to French-labelled goods, don’t buy them.”
Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s former special envoy for Afghanistan, has said that no country should interfere in Afghanistan’s internal affairs, stressing that it is up to Afghans themselves to bring about any change in their country.
In a post on X, Durrani said Afghans should be “left to their own devices” and that they would eventually “find the way out” of their challenges.
However, he warned that instability inside Afghanistan could have negative consequences for neighbouring countries, adding that Afghan leaders and their supporters should take responsibility to address such risks.
Durrani described his remarks as a simple expression of goodwill and best wishes for the Afghan people and their future.
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Uzbekistan and Japan discuss joint projects for Afghanistan’s socio-economic development
The Special Representative of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Afghanistan, Ismatulla Irgashev, has met with Tetsuya Yamada, Director General of the South Asia Department at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), to discuss cooperation on Afghanistan-related development projects.
According to Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, both sides focused on the implementation of joint initiatives aimed at supporting the socio-economic development of Afghanistan.
During the meeting, the Japanese side praised Uzbekistan’s “pragmatic approach” toward Afghanistan, as well as the infrastructure developed in the border city of Termez.
Japan also expressed interest in utilizing the Termez facilities for future humanitarian and development projects in Afghanistan, particularly in the fields of education, healthcare, agriculture, private sector development, and counter-narcotics efforts.
Both sides emphasized that such cooperation is aimed at improving the living conditions and overall well-being of the Afghan people.
Two people were killed and 51 others injured after a passenger bus overturned in the province, police said on Friday.
The incident took place last night in the Adraskan district, and authorities say excessive speed was the main cause of the crash.
The injured victims have been transferred to nearby health facilities for treatment.
Herat police have urged passenger transport drivers to strictly follow traffic rules and regulations and to avoid speeding and reckless driving.
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