Acting Minister of Vice and Virtue, Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, on Sunday, said the Islamic Emirate is ready to engage with the international community, but the world should not seek any compromise with the caretaker government. 

Hanafi made the remarks at a gathering in the central province of Parwan.

“The Islamic Emirate agrees to engage with you (the international community) through negotiations and contact. Of course, there will be no deal against Islam. In this regard, the Islamic Emirate is never ready to engage with you,” he said. 

Hanafi criticized measures of human rights considered in Afghanistan over the past two decades. 

“Where were human rights? How many people became orphans and disabled? Let's talk logically. Where were the foreigners back then?” he asked. 

At the same event, Parwan governor Obaidullah Aminzada said no country can claim to be Islamic if it doesn’t have a vice and virtue office.

“When the decisions of the government are not based on Sharia and there are no vice and virtue institutions in that government, even though it is a government of Muslims, it cannot be called an Islamic government,” he said. 

“Even if we face an enemy like Pharaoh, we should use soft and good behavior towards them,” said Mohammad Eris Anwari, the deputy governor of Parwan. 

The acting minister of vice and virtue said the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate in a new decree emphasized that no one could force their daughters into marriage.