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Taliban’s bid for UN seat rejected for third time

by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: A powerful United Nations panel, which approves the accreditation of diplomats to its system, has refused to assign the Afghan Taliban a seat at the world body. This was the third time a nine-member UN credential committee rejected a request by the interim Afghan Taliban to assign a seat to its representative at the UN. After the takeover in Aug 2021, the interim Taliban government…