No Countries Can Build Military Facilities in Afghanistan, Says Taliban Foreign Ministry

The US Special Representative for Afghanistan said that he has met with Shahrzad Akbar, the former chairwoman of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.

The Taliban have been accused of widespread human rights violations since taking power in Afghanistan.

After their takeover of Afghanistan, the group dissolved Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and several other government bodies.

China, which enjoys close relations with the Taliban, believes that the United States’ strategy in Afghanistan has failed.

The Chinese Special envoy also added, at the Moscow meeting, that the United States is the source of problems in Afghanistan.

At the Moscow meeting, representatives of Uzbekistan and Russia also demanded the release of Afghanistan’s frozen funds.

He also announced that Iran will soon hold an international meeting regarding Afghanistan. According to Qomi, the upcoming meeting will be at the foreign-ministerial level.

Addressing the participants of the Moscow meet, Qomi warned that time is running out, and if the world can’t manage the situation in Afghanistan, it will get worse.

Representatives of Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey are present in this meeting.

The Taliban has not been invited to this meeting and Qomi did not comment on the presence of the Taliban in the upcoming meeting in Tehran too.

Kabulov stressed that Russia has urged the United States and its allies to release the frozen assets of Afghanistan too. According to him, the US, and other countries’ efforts to establish a trust fund or print new Afghani banknotes are superficial.

The Taliban have not been invited to attend the Moscow consultative meeting.

Representatives of China, Pakistan, Iran, India, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan are participating in this meeting.

Delegations from Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey have also been invited as guests to the Moscow meeting.

During the conversation with his Pakistani counterpart, the Iranian foreign minister also spoke about the cooperation between the two countries on issues relating to the affairs of Afghanistan.

Iran and Pakistan are the two neighbours of Afghanistan which host the largest number of Afghan immigrants. After the fall of the republic government in Afghanistan in 2021, thousands of Afghan citizens migrated to Pakistan and Iran.

However, Afghan immigrants have always complained about the ill-treatment by the police officials of the two countries. Recently, it had been reported that Iran forcibly deported thousands of Afghan immigrants.

In recent months, Pakistan has also increased their implementation of strict measures against Afghan immigrants. In the past month, more than a thousand Afghan immigrants have been imprisoned by the Pakistani police.

Iran and Pakistan have close relations with the Taliban government and the embassies of both countries are active in Kabul.