Taliban Official Warns of Instability Upon Weakening of Group

According to him, since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, 2,551 Afghan refugees have been transferred from Pakistan to the Netherlands.

Hoekstra added that those who remain in Afghanistan have been unable to travel to Pakistan or have not been able to leave the country due to financial problems.

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, thousands of people left Afghanistan for Pakistan. Many of them have been transferred to Canada and European countries so far.

For a short time, Pakistan had facilitated the travel of Afghan citizens without passports too.

The Netherlands foreign minister expressed his regret that the route to Pakistan is closed for Afghans who don’t hold passports.

He advised Afghan families to get passports and stressed that his government will remain in touch with those left behind inside Afghanistan.

The Dutch Foreign Minister emphasised that they are trying to evacuate people with passports by November 1, 2022.

He had previously said that tens of thousands of jihadist fighters and suicide bombers have been trained in Afghanistan.

According to Rahmon, terrorists have been transferred to Afghanistan from the Middle East. He stressed that terrorist groups’ presence in Afghanistan poses serious threats to Central Asia.

The Tajik president expressed concerns about the threats from Afghanistan at the 2-day International and Regional Border Security and Management Cooperation to Counter Terrorism and Prevent the Movement of Terrorists conference that kicked off on 18 October in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Rahmon also referred to Afghanistan and warned about security threats in the region. The Tajik president said that until all stakeholders take a common approach, it is impossible to fight terrorism and the propagation of extremism.

In the video clips obtained by Afghanistan International from the demonstration, a female protester stressed that it is only girls and women who hold demonstrations and pay the price for freedom in Afghanistan.

In the resolution issued at the end of the demonstration, the female protesters demanded the reopening of girls’ secondary and high schools in Afghanistan. They also said that the decision about dismissed female students from Kabul university must be reconsidered.

One of the participants in the demonstration said that the Taliban has expelled about 50 female students from Kabul university, and they are systematically removing women from society.

According to Maiwandi, a commission comprising representatives of the Taliban’s Ministries of Defense and Interior affairs and the General Directorate of Intelligence has been established to retrieve the debt amount from its DABS customers.

According to the DABS spokesperson, the Taliban Prime Minister had ordered the formation of the commission.

Maiwandi said that the over 680 million Afghani debt has been collected from Kabul and other provinces of Afghanistan.

He has not provided details about the share of Afghanistan in the transfer of goods from Pakistan to Central Asia.

Earlier, Naveed Qamar, Federal Minister of Trade, and Investment of Pakistan had said that Islamabad plans to become a commercial hub by sending goods to the region through Afghanistan.

According to the Pakistani media, after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the obstacles to Pakistan's trade with Central Asia have been removed.