Qatar's Foreign Minister held talks in Kabul with the Prime Minister and senior actors in the political scene, and Tehran expressed a new position towards the Taliban, and in conjunction with the start of the flow of humanitarian aid, the United Nations will host today, Monday, a conference in Geneva to raise 600 million dollars for Afghanistan, while Pakistan Airlines has operated a flight Commercial flights to Kabul International Airport is the first of its kind since the Taliban took control of the country.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, concluded an official visit to Afghanistan, during which he met with Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund, President of the Supreme Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah, and former President Hamid Karzai.

Sources told Al Jazeera that the Qatari foreign minister encouraged the Afghan parties to engage in national reconciliation, and called on the government to guarantee freedom of passage and travel for all, and a commitment to combating terrorism.

For its part, the Taliban expressed in a statement its thanks to the government of Qatar for its support for the Afghan people at a critical time.

In its statement, the movement said that the Doha agreement was a pivotal achievement that everyone should abide by.

She stated that the talks with the Qatari Foreign Minister dealt with bilateral relations, humanitarian aid and economic development.

Chairman of the Supreme Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah and former Afghan President Hamid Karzai thanked the State of Qatar for its comprehensive assistance to Afghanistan, and expressed their appreciation for the two countries' cooperation in facilitating peace talks.

Al-Jazeera correspondent Abdul Rahman Matar said that the Qatari minister's discussions focused on the need to heal the rift and form an expanded national government that includes all spectrums of the Afghan people, and this point represented the most important part of the political and diplomatic consultations held by the guest of Afghanistan yesterday.

This visit comes after a tour of Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman that led him to several countries - namely, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey and Russia - and focused on the Afghan file.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs meets with officials in Afghanistan (social networking sites)

What Iran wants

In a related context, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that Tehran rejects foreign interference in Afghanistan, "and all regional countries and outside this region should respect this point."

Khatibzadeh added that a minority government cannot succeed in Afghanistan, and that "a government that includes all Afghan parties can achieve security and stability."

"Our policy toward the Taliban and our response to their demands are related to their behavior toward Tehran," he explained.

Khatibzadeh said that "it is too early to talk about Iran's participation in the inauguration ceremony of the government formed by the Taliban. We have contacts with all Afghan parties and are seeking to achieve the demands of the Afghan people. We reject the path that leads to internal fighting in Afghanistan, and war and violence cannot be a solution." The crisis in Afghanistan must be resolved through peaceful means."

From Islamabad to Kabul

In addition, a Pakistani plane landed at Kabul Airport today, Monday, in the first foreign commercial flight since the Taliban movement took control of the Afghan capital in the middle of last month.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in Afghanistan reported that the plane had left Kabul International Airport, returning to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, and a Pakistani Boeing 777, with about 173 passengers on board during its return.

Al-Jazeera correspondent learned that the CEO of Pakistan International Airlines, Jawad Zafar, and a number of officials of the Civil Aviation Authority in Pakistan met at Kabul Airport with officials of the Qatari technical support team, to get acquainted with the details of the process of rehabilitating all aspects of work at the airport.

In the past few days, a team of Qatari experts took over the task of rehabilitating Kabul International Airport, and announced that it was 90% ready.


UN and Qatari planes

Humanitarianly, a Qatar Airways plane carrying 21 tons of relief aid, medical supplies and medicines provided by the World Health Organization arrived at Kabul International Airport.

In the meantime, 4 World Food Program planes carrying teams belonging to the program arrived at Kabul airport, returning to Afghanistan. Sources at the International Organization of Al Jazeera said that the program will resume work in distributing humanitarian aid to several cities in Afghanistan.

Andrew Patterson, deputy director of the World Food Program in Afghanistan, told Al Jazeera that the program will open an air bridge to and from Kabul to coordinate the work of 160 humanitarian organizations working in Afghanistan.

These flights are the first of their kind to carry United Nations teams after the withdrawal of US forces and the re-operation of the airport by Qatari technical support teams.

The landing of the four planes of the World Food Program at Kabul airport comes in light of a stifling humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, coinciding with the freezing of many donor countries and institutions of their aid to Kabul with the Taliban taking the lead.

Meanwhile, he announced the arrival of the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to Kabul to assess the urgent humanitarian needs of Afghanistan.

Farhan Haq, a spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, said that the world has spent about 600 million dollars on relief in Afghanistan.

In a previous interview with Al Jazeera, Haq revealed that the international organization intends to expand the aid it provides from Pakistan.

Today, Monday, the United Nations is organizing a conference in Geneva to raise more than 600 million dollars for Afghanistan, warning of a humanitarian crisis in the country, weeks after the Taliban movement seized power.

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The Geneva conference will be attended by senior UN officials, led by the organization's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and dozens of government representatives, including German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.

The pressure on UN programs has been heightened by the sudden halt in foreign grants worth billions of dollars following the collapse of the Western-backed Afghan government.

Even before the Taliban took control of Kabul last month, half the population (18 million people) was dependent on aid.