Human rights defenders interfere in our internal affairs, says Taliban minister

 The Taliban’s Minister for Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, has said that human rights defenders are interfering in Afghanistan’s internal affairs.

Meeting the Pakistani ambassador to Kabul, Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani, on Monday, the Taliban minister who banned women from higher education last December, said that “Afghans live in traditional thoughts and society” and that the Taliban will not allow anyone to “criticise Afghan thoughts and culture.”