(National-UAE) Afghan activists are calling for an investigation into British imams who met Taliban ministers amid fears they could have been influenced by the regime’s strict ideology.
Hundreds of people including women’s rights campaigners and former Afghan politicians have signed a petition calling for an investigation into the eight-day “fact-finding mission.”
The delegation, which included imams and Islamic scholars from London, met high-ranking Taliban officials including the group’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, and Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, head of the Vice and Virtue Ministry.
‘Dangerous and chilling’
Zalmai Nishat, an Afghan researcher living in the UK, told the National that the risk of engaging with the Taliban cannot be underestimated.
