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Afghanistan: Qatar urges west to engage with Taliban to stem crisis in Afghanistan
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KABUL, 30 May 2022, (TON): Qatar has urged the west to step up its engagement with the Taliban, warning that failure to do so would risk Afghanistan falling into deeper chaos and a rise in extremism.
Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told the Financial Times that maintaining the status quo where the west is boycotting Afghanistan, and just focusing on part of the humanitarian activities through the international agencies was not going to keep Afghanistan intact.
Sheikh Mohammed said “we will see maybe a rise of extremism. We will start to see an economic crisis, which has already started, and this will just drive the people to more radicalisation and conflict.”
He said “this is what we are trying to avoid.”
Qatar is one of the few countries to have relations with the Taliban and it has been the main facilitator of talks between the US, its European allies and the Islamists.
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