INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Acting Minister of Justice Abdul Hakeem Sharei said in response to being sanctioned by the European Union, that the time will come for the
Islamic Emirate to impose sanctions on others.Speaking at an event at Kabul University on Saturday, Sharei described the ruling system in
Afghanistan as strong and unique.&If you and I are united and stand by this regime, I assure you that if they impose sanctions on us today,
the day will come when we will impose sanctions on them,& Sharei stressed. He said despite the US&s defeat in Afghanistan, Washington has
not stopped its enmity with Afghans, and the patrolling of American drones in Afghanistan&s air space has not stopped since the IEA&s
takeover.According to him, the IEA has told the US representative to Kabul that they have asked whether the drones are &chasing Daesh or the
leaders of the Islamic Emirate.&When you [Americans] failed in Afghanistan, the drones did not stop for half an hour, so how can I be sure
that you [US] are following our elders or Daesh?& asked Sharei.&The second issue is that you have set a reward for our elders& heads, so how
can I be sure that you are not after us or after them [Daesh]?&Meanwhile, the Acting Minister of Higher Education Neda Mohammad Nadeem also
said at the event that Afghanistan has achieved much in the field of science, and that work on the curriculum is one of these
achievements.According to him, all departments are functioning and services are being provided, &as the people deserve&. On Thursday, EU
member states approved sanctions against three senior IEA officials over restrictions imposed on women and girls.The EU blacklisted acting
IEA Minister of Education, Habibullah Agha, for implementing the IEA policy of denying girls access to secondary education by extending the
ban on female students participating in secondary education beyond the sixth grade.The EU also imposed sanctions on acting Chief Justice
Abdul Hakim Haqqani for having effectively used the legal system to implement gender-based repression against women by excluding female
judges from the Afghan court system and systematically restricting women&s access to justice, the EU stated.In addition, the EU also listed
acting Minister of Justice Abdul Hakim Sharei, for effectively obstructed the licensing of female lawyers and women&s ability to receive
legal representation, and removed women from positions within the justice system.Blacklisted individuals have their assets frozen and are
prohibited from traveling to the 27-nation EU as well as transiting through Union territories.The post IEA&s justice minister says time will
come for IEA to ‘impose sanctions on others& first appeared on Ariana News.
