Muslim states urged to play role in Afghans' rehabilitation

Frontier Post Report

PESHAWAR - The education minister of Afghanistan, Maulvi Hamdullah Nighmani, has asked the Muslim countries to play their role in the rehabilitation of the war ravaged Afghanistan. According to a press release issued here on Saturday, he was talking to a delegation of the Muslim Hands International, which called on him under the presidentship of its chairman, Sahibzada Syed Lakht Hussain, in Kabul. Maulvi Hamdullah Nighmani said that the Taliban Islamic government had initiated a stage-wise programme to make all the institutions of the war-torn country, Afghanistan, but he said it would take a long time to make these institutions effective. Due to the enforcement of the Islamic system and God's blessing, he said their government had achieved a lot of progress in every field of life. The Afghan minister expressed the hope that they would continue their struggle to rid the people of their miseries by making the institutions stronger and effective. He said that they were in need of books for their schools, colleges and universities and expressed the hope that the Muslim Hands International would extend its cooperation to them in providing books and other materials besides supporting them in the health and other sectors. The chairman, Sahibzada Syed Lakht Hussain, assured the minister that his organisation would continue its support to the Islamic government. The delegation also held detailed meetings with the minister for trade and the director health and apprised them regarding their problems. The delegation included Pirzada Mohammad Noorul Haq Qadari, Sahibzada Syed Ziaul Noor, Shamsur Rehman Shams and Khalid Rashid.