RASC News Agency: In a powerful and sharply worded statement, the Jamiat Islami Afghanistan, under the leadership of former Balkh Governor and veteran political figure Ata Mohammad Noor, has delivered a scathing critique of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), accusing the body of abandoning its foundational principles of neutrality, justice, and accountability. The party denounced what it describes as a deeply troubling alignment between UNAMA and the Taliban’s de facto regime. The official statement, released Monday, condemned UNAMA and select affiliated officials for their increasingly submissive and conciliatory stance toward the Taliban an unelected and violent group that seized power by force in August 2021 and has since ruled Afghanistan through coercion, fear, and systemic repression. According to the Jamiat Islami, UNAMA’s current trajectory represents a flagrant deviation from the United Nations’ core mandate and a betrayal of the Afghanistani people’s suffering and democratic aspirations.
“Rather than standing resolutely beside the oppressed citizens of Afghanistan especially its women, youth, and marginalized communities UNAMA has chosen a path of silence and, in some cases, active engagement aimed at normalizing an extremist and illegitimate regime,” the statement read. “This is not neutrality; it is quiet complicity in the face of tyranny.” The statement highlighted the worsening humanitarian and human rights crisis in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, including the systematic erasure of women from public life, the elimination of civil liberties, and the silencing of dissent through arbitrary arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings. The Jamiat Islami described current international efforts to grant the Taliban any form of legitimacy as “a dagger in the back of the Afghanistani people and a grievous blow to the credibility of international institutions.”
In perhaps its most searing criticism, the statement accused UNAMA of becoming part of a broader international trend of “strategic hypocrisy” where global powers and institutions preach human rights and democracy while enabling and engaging with oppressive regimes for the sake of short-term political stability. “Selective silence and diplomatic doublespeak are not diplomacy; they are the language of betrayal,” it said. The Jamiat Islami further warned that the Afghanistani people are neither blind to these behaviors nor will they forget the silence of those who claim to champion global justice. The statement called such conduct “a manifestation of international injustice” and a shameful abdication of the global community’s moral responsibility.
In its closing remarks, the party urged the international community, including UN member states, to abandon appeasement and adopt a principled approach that aligns with the values of justice, inclusivity, and human dignity. “Afghanistan’s future must not be bartered in backroom negotiations with extremists. The world must stand with the people, not with their oppressors,” the Jamiat Islami affirmed.
