Afghan opposition groups outraged at UN employees photographed under Taliban flag - Fox News

The U.N. has apologized aft employees took photos nether Taliban flags during a sojourn to Afghanistan. 

"We are alert of this photograph which was taken portion the Deputy Secretary-General was gathering the de facto leaders successful Afghanistan," Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the U.N. secretary-general, told Fox News Digital. "Her information had taken her to that gathering and were waiting adjacent door."

"The photograph should ne'er person been taken," Dujarric stressed. "It was a mistake, and we apologize for it."

The pictures archetypal surfaced connected societal media Thursday night, showing U.N. unit successful Kabul taking a representation nether Taliban flags. 

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Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammad, the U.N.’s astir elder pistillate official, had visited Afghanistan successful an effort to code concerns implicit women’s rights successful the state – peculiarly access to higher education and limits connected women successful the workplace. 

The delegation is the astir elder radical of officials to sojourn the state since the Taliban took powerfulness successful 2021. 

Mohammad looked to talk with elder Taliban leaders to person them to reverse absorption connected the restrictions, which person imperiled humanitarian operations since women cannot participate, according to the BBC. 

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Ali Maisam Nazary, caput of overseas relations for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, posted the photos and denounced them arsenic "insensitive." 

"The U.N. unit successful Kabul taking a photograph with a violent group’s emblem brings the United Nation’s impartiality & integrity into question," Nazary wrote. "We kindly inquire Antonio Guterres to analyse this substance & for UNAMA News to forestall specified insensitive actions that tin tarnish its reputation."

Taliban's acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi meets with U.N. delegates, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, successful this surface drawback taken from a video released connected Jan. 18, 2023. (Taliban Foreign Ministry/Handout via Reuters)

Nazary separately told Fox News Digital that the photos were "unfortunate" and reiterated concerns implicit U.N. impartiality and integrity. 

"This comes arsenic the Taliban terrorists are allowing Afghanistan to go a hub for planetary terrorism, and they are expanding their oppression connected citizens, particularly women," Nazary said. "Such acts origin america to question the U.N.’s impartiality and integrity successful Afghanistan, and we kindly inquire Secretary-General Guterres to analyse this substance and forestall immoderate biased determination connected the portion of U.N. unit visiting Afghanistan successful the future."

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Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban’s chosen typical to the U.N. and erstwhile spokesperson for the Taliban, told Fox News Digital that the words connected the Taliban emblem beryllium to "Muslims each implicit the world." 

Suhail Shaheen, Afghan Taliban spokesman, speaks during a associated quality league successful Moscow. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

"The words written connected the achromatic cloth are words that Muslims each implicit the satellite judge in, i.e. determination is nary God but Allah, Mohammad (pbuh) is the prophet of Allah," Shaheen said. "It belongs to each Muslims, not 1 federation oregon government." 

"Anyone who doesn’t judge this are not called Muslims, oregon accidental thing against it, commits blasphemy," helium added. 

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The U.N. delegation met with acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, who stressed the request for planetary designation to assistance empower the government, on with the removal of sanctions that bounds the government’s funding. 

Fox News' Chris Massaro contributed to this article.