Afghanistan extremity Live News Updates The foreign minister in Afghanistan’s new Taliban- run Cabinet Tuesday said the government remains married to its pledges not to allow zealots to use its home to attack others. The first press conference by Amir Khan Muttaqi since the
Taliban formed an interim government a week ago comes as governments around the world — and numerous Afghans at home — are searching for suggestions on how it’ll rule Afghanistan after sweeping out the US- backed government and taking over Kabul a month agone.
Meanwhile, thousands of Afghans protested against the Taliban in the southern megacity of Kandahar on Tuesday, according to a former government functionary and original TV footage, after residers were asked to vacate a domestic army colony.
Protesters gathered in front of the governor’s house in Kandahar after around families were asked to leave the colony, according to the former government functionary who witnessed the crowds.
While the Taliban is yet to respond to the demurrers, the group before denied rumours that one of their top leaders Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has been killed in a shootout with rivals.
The Afghanistan issue is anticipated to feature prominently in the forthcoming Quadrangle peak where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with leaders of Australia, Japan and the United States at the White House in Washington onSept.
24. Meanwhile, benefactors have pledged further than$1.1 billion to help Afghanistan, where poverty and hunger have entwined since the Taliban took power, and foreign aid has dried up.