Recognition of IEA would be decided by UNSC permanent members: Pakistan envoy

Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) would be a decision that five permanent members of the UN Security Council would make, Asif Ali Durrani, Pakistan’s new special envoy for Afghanistan, said.

“I think it would be a decision by the major countries, especially P 5. They are looking towards that. If the permanent five members of the Security Council do either way, so that will have an impact,” Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s special envoy for Afghanistan, said in an interview with the Center for Research and Security Studies in Pakistan.

He also called on the international community to be “compassionate” with the people of Afghanistan.

“If they are not compassionate to the ruling dispensation in Afghanistan at the moment, so at least they have to be compassionate with the people. If the UN statistics are correct, almost 95 percent of people are below the poverty line, and they can become a special liability for Pakistan if the economic situation deteriorates. Their first port of call would be Pakistan,” Durrani said.

He added that Afghanistan’s neighbors are concerned because the country is still not stable enough.

The envoy also said that Afghanistan should be allowed to evolve its own system of governance.

“On its own Afghanistan did not have the opportunity to evolve its own system. Whatever system you want to. I am no one to comment on that because I have no right to comment on that because they have their own system. Let them evolve their own system. We have examples as well in the world, there are monarchies, there are dictatorships, but the world is dealing with them,” Durrani said.