Published 6 August 2021 at 14.18
Abroad. The war in Afghanistan has cost $ 900 billion and killed at least 241,000 people, completely unnecessarily. Now the Taliban are once again controlling most of the country and are out on a charm offensive in the Western media.
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The Taliban now control 223 of the country's districts, while the government controls 68. However, the movement denies that it is engaging in any military offensive.
– These areas joined us voluntarily, says Taliban leader Muhammad Naeem said in an interview with Expressen. land in the country. Instead, it was the United States that filled the country with military units after 2001, even though the Taliban were actually ready for negotiations at the time.
Now Naeem is in Qatar to negotiate the country's future. The government in Kabul is also negotiating with Qatar and Kuwait to relocate thousands of families to US bases in the countries, in the event that the US loyal government falls in Kabul.
Muhammad Naeem tells Expressen that sharia law will indeed come to be applied in Afghanistan in the future, but he explains it by saying that 99 percent of the country is simply Muslim.
– At the same time, we can not take our rules and laws in Afghanistan to a Western country and practice them there. Is it reasonable for us to do that? Naeem wonders without, it seems, getting any sensible answer from Expressen.