atari secretary of state Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani held talks with the Taliban-appointed prime minister on Sunday, a Taliban spokesman said, within the highest level foreign visit to Kabul since the group seized the capital last month.
Qatar is taken into account one among the countries with the foremost influence over the Taliban and played a pivotal role within the massive U.S.-led airlift of its own citizens, other Western nationals and Afghans who helped Western countries.
The Qatari capital Doha was also the house of the Taliban’s political office which oversaw the negotiations with the us that eventually led to the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
Sheikh Mohammed met Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund and variety of other senior ministers, a Taliban spokesman said on Sunday.
”The meeting focused on bilateral relations, humanitarian assistance, economic development and interaction with the planet ,” consistent with a press release from Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen.
Sunday’s meeting within the presidential palace, first reported by Al Jazeera television, was attended by variety of other Afghan ministers including deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi, secretary of state Amir Khan Muttaqi, Defence Minister Yaqoob Mujahid, Interor Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and intelligence chief Abdul Haq Wasiq.
Shaheen said the leadership of the Islamic Emirate, the term wont to describe the new order in situ in Afghanistan, thanked the Qatar government for supporting the Afghan people.
It said the Doha agreement, signed by the us and therefore the Taliban, was a ”landmark achievement, all sides should adhere to its implementation.”
