{"id":39197,"date":"2026-04-10T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=39197"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:10:17","slug":"dostum-reacts-to-kabul-university-students-claim-calls-for-taliban-ministers-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/39197\/","title":{"rendered":"Dostum Reacts to Kabul University Student\u2019s Claim, Calls for Taliban Minister\u2019s Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abdul Rashid Dostum has called on Neda Mohammad Nadeem, the Taliban\u2019s Minister of Higher Education, to apologize over his alleged behavior toward a Kabul University student who was wearing an Uzbek hat.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dostum said Turkic peoples in Afghanistan, like other ethnic groups, are a great people with a rich culture and are indigenous to the country, adding that insulting their culture goes against Islamic principles and undermines national unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hibatullah Yaqouboglu, a student of Uzbek language and literature, claimed he was slapped by Neda Mohammad Nadeem for wearing an Uzbek hat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident has triggered widespread reactions among exiled politicians, activists, academics, and members of the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dostum said: \u201c&#8230;this kind of action by the so-called Minister of Higher Education is, in terms of humanity and Islam, unacceptable and contrary to human and Islamic dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that Turkic peoples in Afghanistan, with their distinct cultural features such as buzkashi, wrestling, and the chapan, have lived in the region for thousands of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leader of the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan strongly condemned the alleged behavior of the Taliban minister, saying the group must respect the cultural values of the Afghan people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Rashid Dostum has called on Neda Mohammad Nadeem, the Taliban\u2019s Minister of Higher Education, to apologize over his alleged behavior toward a Kabul University student who was wearing an Uzbek hat. Dostum said Turkic peoples in Afghanistan, like other ethnic groups, are a great people with a rich culture and are indigenous to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[7928,7924,7923,7929,7932,7925,7930,7927,7931,7926,7933,1238,2335,5719,5706,1482],"class_list":["post-39197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-abdulrashiddostum","tag-apology","tag-dostum-2","tag-highereducation","tag-islamic","tag-kabuluniversity","tag-national-slamicmovementofafghanistan","tag-nedamohammadnadeem","tag-respect","tag-turkic","tag-universitystudent","tag-afghanistan","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39199,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39197\/revisions\/39199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}