Kabul: Afghanistan’s New Taliban government US and European envoys have warned that continued efforts to pressure them through sanctions will undermine security and could trigger a wave economic refugee.
Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki told Western diplomats during talks in Doha to “undermine them” afghan government is not in anyone’s interest because its negative impact will directly affect the world in the security sector and economic migration From the country”, according to a statement published late Tuesday.
NS Taliban It overthrew Afghanistan’s former US-backed government in August after a two-decade-long conflict, and declared an Islamic emirate governed under the movement’s strict interpretation of religious law.
But efforts to stabilize the country, still facing attacks from the Taliban’s rival, extremist group Islamic State-Khorasan, have been undermined by international sanctions: banks running short of cash and paying civil servants Is not being done.
According to his spokesman’s statement, Muttaki said at the Doha meeting: “We urge the countries of the world to end the current restrictions and allow banks to operate normally so that charity groups, organizations and governments can provide their employees with their own to pay salaries with reserves and international financial support.”
European nations are particularly concerned that if the Afghan economy collapses, large numbers of migrants will leave for the continent, putting pressure on neighboring states such as Pakistan and Iran, and eventually EU borders.
Washington and the European Union have said they stand ready to support humanitarian initiatives in Afghanistan, but are wary of providing direct support to the Taliban without guarantees it will respect human rights, especially women’s rights.
The European Union has pledged one billion euros in aid, but European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen insisted that it would be used to help Afghanistan’s neighbors or “direct” the Afghan people while bypassing the Taliban government. support”.
“We are clear about our conditions for any dialogue with the Afghan authorities, including with respect to human rights,” he said on Tuesday.
The Taliban insist they pose no threat to civil rights, and have urged government employees, including some women, to return to their professions, while vowing to defeat IS-K and bring Afghanistan back to stability.
But girls were not allowed back into high school when the new term began a month ago, and many women have complained of being forced out of professional and public roles such as journalism.
Classes for some high school girls have resumed in the northern cities of Kunduz and Mazar-i-Sharif, but are still held out in the capital and the Taliban’s southern stronghold.
And in the West, around Herat, harsh punishments for alleged criminals have resumed, recalling the brutal past era of the Taliban regime they were overthrown in the 2001 US-led intervention.
Dead suspects were publicly hung from cranes on at least two occasions in Herat, and on Tuesday an alleged thief was beaten up in the street in the Obe district near the city.
Witnesses told how Taliban officials invited male residents to join in the flogging.
“I was in fear and despair. Everyone was in fear and despair. I felt pain when they were being whipped,” a doctor, nearly 40, told AFP on condition of anonymity.
“Even now, I don’t want to remember that scene,” he said, so upset he wanted to quit his job and leave the neighborhood.
Residents said that when the whipping was announced, they felt they would have to run away for fear of retaliation if they were seen to take it away.
Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki told Western diplomats during talks in Doha to “undermine them” afghan government is not in anyone’s interest because its negative impact will directly affect the world in the security sector and economic migration From the country”, according to a statement published late Tuesday.
NS Taliban It overthrew Afghanistan’s former US-backed government in August after a two-decade-long conflict, and declared an Islamic emirate governed under the movement’s strict interpretation of religious law.
But efforts to stabilize the country, still facing attacks from the Taliban’s rival, extremist group Islamic State-Khorasan, have been undermined by international sanctions: banks running short of cash and paying civil servants Is not being done.
According to his spokesman’s statement, Muttaki said at the Doha meeting: “We urge the countries of the world to end the current restrictions and allow banks to operate normally so that charity groups, organizations and governments can provide their employees with their own to pay salaries with reserves and international financial support.”
European nations are particularly concerned that if the Afghan economy collapses, large numbers of migrants will leave for the continent, putting pressure on neighboring states such as Pakistan and Iran, and eventually EU borders.
Washington and the European Union have said they stand ready to support humanitarian initiatives in Afghanistan, but are wary of providing direct support to the Taliban without guarantees it will respect human rights, especially women’s rights.
The European Union has pledged one billion euros in aid, but European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen insisted that it would be used to help Afghanistan’s neighbors or “direct” the Afghan people while bypassing the Taliban government. support”.
“We are clear about our conditions for any dialogue with the Afghan authorities, including with respect to human rights,” he said on Tuesday.
The Taliban insist they pose no threat to civil rights, and have urged government employees, including some women, to return to their professions, while vowing to defeat IS-K and bring Afghanistan back to stability.
But girls were not allowed back into high school when the new term began a month ago, and many women have complained of being forced out of professional and public roles such as journalism.
Classes for some high school girls have resumed in the northern cities of Kunduz and Mazar-i-Sharif, but are still held out in the capital and the Taliban’s southern stronghold.
And in the West, around Herat, harsh punishments for alleged criminals have resumed, recalling the brutal past era of the Taliban regime they were overthrown in the 2001 US-led intervention.
Dead suspects were publicly hung from cranes on at least two occasions in Herat, and on Tuesday an alleged thief was beaten up in the street in the Obe district near the city.
Witnesses told how Taliban officials invited male residents to join in the flogging.
“I was in fear and despair. Everyone was in fear and despair. I felt pain when they were being whipped,” a doctor, nearly 40, told AFP on condition of anonymity.
“Even now, I don’t want to remember that scene,” he said, so upset he wanted to quit his job and leave the neighborhood.
Residents said that when the whipping was announced, they felt they would have to run away for fear of retaliation if they were seen to take it away.
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