“The international community will not keep silent about it and will show a strong reaction to this,” said Ishaq Gailani, leader of the Afghanistan Solidarity Movement….reports Asian Lite News
After Taliban imposed restrictions on Afghan citizens travelling abroad, some social media users termed the move as “hostage-taking”.
Afghanistan is facing the issue of unemployment.
Milad Arian, a graduate student, said when the government decides that its citizens should not go abroad, “it should provide job opportunities for the youth,” reported TOLO News.
“The international community will not keep silent about it and will show a strong reaction to this,” said Ishaq Gailani, leader of the Afghanistan Solidarity Movement.
Najim, a resident of Kabul who formerly worked with NATO forces in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2012, said “those who have legal documents should be allowed to travel”.
“We who have the documents, we will not be allowed to go,” he said.
Nazim and her family are officially allowed to travel to the United States. However, the recent move by the Taliban is becoming a cause of grave concern.
Zabiullah Mujahid, spokesman of the Islamic Emirate said earlier “if the Afghans are not sure what will happen to them outside, we will close it (for now).
“I reminded you that more than 50,000 Afghans are in a bad situation in the Doha camps,” he said.
In August last year, the United States evacuated more than 120,000 people from Afghanistan during an airlift. However many US citizens still remain in Afghanistan, reported Tolo News.
Washington estimates that more than 60,000 former US colleagues in Afghanistan who have applied for special immigration programmes still remain in Afghanistan.
It was the Taliban’s commitment to let the evacuation happen of foreign nationals and Afghans who helped the international forces.
Inclusive govt
Iran will recognize an inclusive government in Afghanistan that represents all factions of the country, said a media report.
Iran Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian has said that they will recognize an all-inclusive government established by the Taliban, reported Khaama Press.
The development came during the recent Iran visit of a Taliban delegation where Abdollahian reminded the Taliban’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Motaqi that the establishment of the inclusive government in Afghanistan is key and that all factions in the country must see themselves in the government, the news agency quoted Abdollahian during his interview with Iran’s Press TV.
Calling the US withdrawal from Afghanistan “embarrassing”, Abdollahian said that the US’ 20 years of presence in Afghanistan was a failure.
He added that Afghan people have been Iran’s close neighbours and have resisted the US presence in Afghanistan in the past two decades as they did in the past decades against the Soviet Union.
Earlier, the Iranian Ambassador Bahadur Aminian had said that Tehran might persuade other countries to recognize the Afghan government if the Islamic Emirate brings reforms to its governance structure, reported Tolo News.
“If a group comes (to power) and the group is (comprised) of a single ethnic group and all other ethnic groups are not included in the government, we don’t accept it, and, therefore, we benevolently call on the Taliban rulers to form an inclusive government,” he said.
The Taliban’s swift ascension to power in Afghanistan occurred in mid-August, triggering economic disarray and a dire humanitarian crisis in the country.
The group, which is desperate to seek international recognition, has time and again been reminded that respect for women and human rights, establishing inclusive government, not allowing Afghanistan to become a safe haven of terrorism are the preconditions for the recognition set by the international community. (ANI)
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