Taliban officially recognizes both Persian and Pashto languages, Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa said in a meeting held in Kabul, Afghanistan, with an Iranian media delegation, IRNA reported on Tuesday.
The concerns made the Taliban officials hold a separate meeting with a delegation from the Islamic Republic to discuss the issue.
In the meeting, Khairkhwa said the majority of the people of Afghanistan speak Pashto and do not know Farsi and some others vice versa, so the Taliban ruling government has a duty to preserve both languages.
That the Persian language is to be faded away is not true, he said adding that Taliban is after helping the Pashto speakers learn Persian and the Farsi speakers learn the first.
“No discrimination has been practiced by the Afghanistan government against the Persian language.”
He underlined that if any placards written by Persian language has been seen to be pulled down across the country, it would not be in line with Taliban’s policy but the biased persons are behind the act.
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