IEA forms committee to encourage Afghans abroad to return home

The interim government in Afghanistan formed a commission Wednesday to encourage Afghans living outside the country to return home.

Mohammad Naeem, a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) said the commission will be headed by Interim Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Shahabuddin Delawar.

The Repatriation and Relationship of Afghan Personalities’ commission “will liaise with Afghans who have left the country so that they can return to their homeland and live in peace with their Afghan brothers instead of foreign countries,” Naeem said on Twitter.

He said the decision was made by the Cabinet led by Interim Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhand.

The commission will have six members including Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, interim foreign minister; Sheikh Muhammad Khalid Hanafi, interim minister for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice; Mullah Khair Allah KhairKhawa, interim minister of culture and information; Abdul Haq Wathiq, the head of General Directorate of Intelligence, and Fasihudin Fitrat, the chief of the Army Staff, and Muhammad Anas Haqqani, a scholar and IEA leader.