The Taliban will hold face-to-face talks with European Union officials, the acting foreign minister said on Monday, in a diplomatic push by the hardline group for international support. The Taliban are seeking recognition, as well as assistance to avoid a humanitarian disaster, after they returned to power in August following the withdrawal of US troops after 20 years of war. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged the world to donate more money to Afghanistan…
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UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday slammed the Taliban for “breaking” promises to Afghan women and girls, and urged the world to donate more money to Afghanistan to head off its economic collapse. The comments came on the heels of the first face-to-face talks between the United States and the Taliban since the Islamists took control of the country, at which the issue of women’s rights was raised, according to the State…
Iran’s embassy based in Kabul in a Twitter post on Monday, October 11 said that they are willing to send humanitarian aids to the victims of the blast that targeted a mosque in Khan Abad port of Kunduz province. The embassy said that they are sending a plane full of humanitarian aids to Kunduz province to the families of victims and those who were wounded in the explosion. The humanitarian aid will include medicines, health…
WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday that the weekend talks with the Taliban were candid and professional. During the weekend, the Biden administration held their first face-to-face meeting with the Taliban in Doha since the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in late August. On Monday, a State Department official told journalists in Washington that on Oct 9 and 10, an interagency US delegation travelled to the Qatari capital to meet senior Taliban representatives.…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday said the Taliban were the only option for fighting Daesh [Islamic State] in the region. Two decades later the US had no other option but to do everything it could to support a stable government in Afghanistan, because “the Taliban was the only option for fighting Islamic State (IS) in the region” and to prevent the ascendency of hardline elements within the Taliban’s own ranks, he told the Middle…
ISLAMABAD – US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has made it clear that the US administration would not recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan as they (Taliban) have not fulfilled their promises which they made earlier. “The US would see the practical steps of the Taliban in the days ahead about protection of human rights, women and minorities rights and freedom of movement”, Wendy Sherman told select journalists at the US embassy here yesterday.…
KUNDUZ: A suicide attack on worshippers at a Shia mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz killed at least 55 people on Friday, in the bloodiest assault since US forces left the country. Scores more victims from the minority community were wounded in the blast, which was claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS) group and appeared designed to further destabilise Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover. The terrorist group, bitter rivals of…
MOSCOW – Russia will invite the Taliban to international talks on Afghanistan. scheduled for October 20 in Moscow, the Kremlin’s envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said Thursday. In response to a question from Russian journalists on whether representatives of the group would be invited to negotiations, Kabulov said: “Yes”. The talks will follow a G20 summit on Afghanistan on October 12 that will seek to help the country avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in the wake…
MOSCOW: Russia will invite the Taliban to international talks on Afghanistan scheduled for October 20 in Moscow, the Kremlin’s envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said Thursday. In response to a question from Russian journalists on whether representatives of the hardline group would be invited to negotiations involving China, India, Iran and Pakistan, Kabulov said: “Yes”. The talks will follow a G20 summit on Afghanistan on October 12 that will seek to help the country avoid…
The deputy minister of information and culture, Zabiullah Mujahid, downplayed the threat of Daesh, saying that the group would soon be suppressed. “We don’t call Daesh a threat, but we call it a headache,” Mujahid said. “It creates headaches in some places but is immediately taken out in every incident; (they) have been chased out and their sanctuaries found.” According to Mujahid, Daesh does not have the people’s support in Afghanistan. However, political experts say…
National Security Adviser (NSA) Moeed Yusuf has said that a “wait-and-see approach” on Afghanistan is tantamount to abandoning the war-torn country and has called for holding a donor conference to formulate immediate humanitarian and economic relief plans for averting the risks of instability and threat of terrorism faced by the entire world. “A wait-and-see approach, although more politically tenable for many countries, would be tantamount to abandonment … A starting point could be a major…