Nasir Ahmad Faiq, the acting representative of Afghanistan at the United Nations, reacted to the Taliban’s recent decision to restrict the use of the Persian language, stating that many members of the group received their education in religious schools in Pakistan in Urdu and Pashto and are not familiar with Persian. Faiq emphasized that the use of the country’s two official languages in government documents has a historical precedent and that favoring one language over the other is a divisive policy rooted in an anti-national unity mindset. The Taliban’s action has sparked widespread backlash among cultural and political activists
