A Qatari plane carrying a technical team landed in Kabul today, Wednesday, to discuss the resumption of navigation operations at the Afghan capital's airport, and to discuss providing assistance after the Taliban's takeover and the withdrawal of foreign forces.
Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the delegation of Qatari technical experts arrived in Kabul to discuss resuming the airport's work at the request of the Taliban, which also called on the employees of the Afghan Civil Aviation Administration to resume their work and assess the loss suffered by Kabul Airport after the withdrawal of foreign forces.
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani called on the Taliban at a press conference in Doha today, Wednesday, to ensure a "safe passage" for those wishing to leave the country after the US withdrawal.
Attention is focused on Kabul airport and how to keep it open, and on allowing the Taliban to leave the country without hindrances once the traffic returns.
Before withdrawing from Kabul Airport, the American forces destroyed equipment and aircraft to miss the opportunity for the Taliban to benefit from them (Al-Jazeera)
During the past weeks, Qatar played a key role in securing a safe passage for the exit of tens of thousands of people from Kabul towards other countries, including the United States.
It also hosts Taliban leaders, and has facilitated talks between the movement and Washington, which announced the withdrawal of its last soldiers from Afghanistan last Monday after 20 years of its military presence there.
Taliban government
In a related context, a Taliban source told Al-Jazeera that the new Afghan government will be announced within days and will not include officials from the previous government.
The source confirmed that members of the previous government will not participate in the new government, which he said will enjoy support from home and abroad.
While awaiting the formation of the next government, the Taliban reviewed its forces in Kandahar as part of celebrations for the withdrawal of US forces from the country, at a time when an official in the movement announced the failure of negotiations to resolve the issue of Panjshir peacefully.
The city of Kandahar witnessed a military parade, organized by Taliban fighters on board military and civilian vehicles from the city center to the assembly area at the cricket stadium, over which a military helicopter flew on more than one occasion.
The participants in these celebrations describe the withdrawal of US forces as the country's new independence.
Negotiations Failed
For his part, the head of the Taliban’s Call and Guidance Committee, Amir Khan Muttaki, said - in an audio message - that the movement tried, in all seriousness, to solve the Panjshir issue through talks and mediators, but it failed.
Khan Muttaki said that the movement demands the people of Panjshir to stop fighting and join the Taliban movement.
The Taliban had announced that hundreds of its fighters were heading to the state of Panjshir to control it, after local state officials refused to hand it over peacefully. In parallel, the movement opened channels of communication with Ahmed Masoud, son of Ahmed Shah Masoud, to hand over the only state outside its control, and negotiations took place between the two parties during the past days. on this matter.
On August 19, last August, Ahmed Masoud published an article in the American newspaper "Washington Post", in which he announced the launch of what he described as the "Mujahideen resistance" against the Taliban's control of the country, in which he explicitly requested Western support for what he called the "national resistance". .