IEA rejects UN report on violence against children, says its false and propaganda

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), said in reaction to the UN report claiming that there were 4,519 cases of violence against children in Afghanistan, that it was false and “propaganda against the system and the people”.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, said in a conversation with National Radio and Television (RTA) that the reports published are not true. According to him, by publishing these reports, the international community wants to spread propaganda against the system and the people of Afghanistan, and secondly, their goal is not to cooperate with children.

“If it was really a matter of children, in Palestine, as a result of the wrong policies of the West and the countries that fund these institutions, thousands of children are killed, disabled, homeless and face many problems that these institutions don’t even talk about, but instead they support the enemies of those children, so we should not consider their slogan,” said Mujahid.

Zabihullah Mujahid says that the situation of children in Afghanistan has improved more now than ever before.

“In the past 20 years (2001 to 2021), children were vulnerable, were killed, became orphans, lost their families, lived in fear and became victims of mines and explosions, but now this concern has disappeared and children are safe,” Mujahid added.

Mujahid still admitted that due to the poverty and economic problems in the country, not all children are provided the necessary services, but efforts are being made in this direction.

“The children who used to beg were saved, the children who used to work in the security ranks are not working anymore, and we are trying to get the children who are busy with hard labor to go to educational centers and to stop hard labor for children,” said Mujahid.

At the same time, the spokesman of the Islamic Emirate rejected the report about abuse of children and said: “Rape of children is not conceivable in the Islamic Emirate system and this issue is nothing more than propaganda against the Islamic Emirate.”