INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:

The acting interior minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Sirajuddin Haqqani, has called on former high-ranking government

officials and security forces to return home.During a visit to Kabul police headquarters this week, Haqqani urged officials to return and

assured them of their security.Haqqani said the Islamic Emirate defends the dignity, property and honor of all citizens of the country, and

those who return to Afghanistan will be safe.&We invite those who went abroad to return home

High-ranking officials of the former government can live here with dignity

The Islamic Emirate fully defends your honor, dignity and property,& said Haqqani.A number of political analysts have meanwhile said that

the Islamic Emirate should create a proper mechanism for the return of skilled Afghans who left the country and that the general amnesty

should be implemented properly across the country.&The government should establish a fully-fledged mechanism for the return of the previous

government&s forces, and this mechanism should be implemented by popular individuals and figures in the country,& said Ahmad Jawed Sangdil,

one political analyst.&The general amnesty must be properly implemented and the restrictions must be lifted so that these forces can return

home safely,& said Abdul Wali Frozan, another analyst.This comes after Amnesty International said in a recent report that after the Islamic

Emirate took control of Afghanistan, ethnic and religious minorities, former security forces and individuals thought to be supporters of the

former government have been targteted and in some cases tortured by the Islamic Emirate, despite assurances of a blanket amnesty across the

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