The Reuters information company reported on Monday that Pakistan’s UN mission requested an exemption for Muttaqi to journey between Could 6 and 9 “for a gathering with the overseas ministers of Pakistan and China”.
Muttaqi has lengthy been subjected to a journey ban, asset freeze and arms embargo underneath UN Safety Council sanctions. The UN Safety Council committee agreed to permit Muttaqi to journey to Uzbekistan final month for a gathering of the overseas ministers of neighbouring international locations of Afghanistan to debate pressing peace, safety, and stability issues.
Afghanistan’s TOLOnews outlet stated earlier on Monday that media in Pakistan have been reporting on the upcoming go to and that Muttaqi would meet with Pakistan’s International Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. Afghanistan’s overseas ministry had not but commented on the reported journey, based on TOLOnews.
Information of the Taliban official’s journey comes as representatives of almost two dozen international locations and worldwide establishments met on Monday in Qatar with UN Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres for talks on Afghanistan, focusing significantly on the plight of ladies and women underneath the Taliban administration.
Taliban authorities weren’t invited to attend the closed-door two-day assembly in Doha, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric stated.
The assembly goals “to realize a typical understanding throughout the worldwide group on the right way to interact with the Taliban”, said Dujarric, who famous that recognition of Taliban rule “will not be up for dialogue”. Key dialogue matters embody ladies’s and women’ rights, inclusive governance, countering terrorism and drug trafficking, he added.
Since seizing energy in August 2021, Taliban authorities have imposed guidelines that the UN has labelled “gender-based apartheid”.
“Any assembly about Afghanistan with out the participation of the Afghan authorities is ineffective and counterproductive,” Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the Taliban overseas ministry spokesperson, instructed Al Jazeera.
Ladies have been barred from nearly all secondary training and universities, and prevented from working in most authorities jobs. Final month, Taliban authorities prolonged the ban to working with UN businesses.
The Taliban administration says the ban is an “inside challenge” that ought to not affect overseas dealings.
However, in response, the UN has ordered a evaluate of its important reduction operation in Afghanistan, the place many within the 38-million-strong inhabitants depend on meals support. The evaluate is because of be accomplished on Friday. The UN has introduced it faces an “appalling selection” over whether or not to keep up its reduction efforts in Afghanistan.
Guterres stated on social media earlier than leaving for Doha that “reversing all measures that prohibit ladies’s rights to work is vital to reaching the hundreds of thousands of individuals in Afghanistan that require humanitarian help”.
Although not invited to the talks, the pinnacle of the Taliban consultant workplace in Doha, Sohail Shaheen, said he had met with delegation members from the UK and China. He added the UN assembly and “the significance of engagement” have been amongst matters raised.
