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Pakistan is the lifeline of the Afghan Islamic Emirate. In its madrasas the fundamentalist movement that sustains it was founded, from its porous border its hosts fought the previous Afghan government, with Islamabad looking the other side and, once it was defeated,

the Imran Khan executive is the one that is moving the most in seeks political backing for the Taliban.

It is no coincidence, then, that the first official visit by a member of the new Afghan government was to the Pakistani capital.

And there, too, representatives of the main world powers addressed this Thursday to decide what to do with the new lords of troubled Afghanistan. Of course, the Pakistani Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureishi, was right at the beginning of the summit, called 'troika plus': "The commitment to Afghanistan must not only continue, but must be increased for multiple reasons," he declared in the introductory parliament.

It was the first time that the troika plus, made up of China, Russia and the United States, had met since the Taliban took control of Kabul on August 15. Since then, the scene has been dominated by the reluctance of the West to allow the new rulers access to the foreign currency deposits that the country has abroad, on the one hand, and the pragmatism of convenience of Chinese and Russians,

willing to understand each other. with the Taliban

in order to increase their influence in a strategic country.

Meanwhile, the poverty situation that was already rampant under the former Ashraf Ghani executive, corrupt and heavily dependent on international funding, has worsened. With the funds frozen, the margin of the Taliban Emirate to support the population has been greatly reduced. Child hunger spreads as thousands of Afghans desperately try to find a way out. Iran and Pakistan are the countries that are receiving most of the migratory flow.

Aware of this, Pakistan has taken the lead in efforts to prevent a major disaster.

"Nobody wants to see [Afghanistan] relapse into civil war, nobody wants an economic collapse that spurs instability;

everyone wants terrorist elements operating inside Afghanistan to be effectively addressed and we all want to prevent a new refugee crisis. ", argued Pakistani minister Qureishi in front of envoys from Washington, Moscow and Beijing.

Among those present was Thomas West, successor to the controversial former US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who forged the agreement that led to the spectacular withdrawal of troops from the country. Before the meeting, State Department spokesman Ned Price had explained that the objective of West, who had maintained contacts with the EU in this regard, was "to continue to make clear the expectations we have about the Taliban and about any future government. in Afghanistan. "

Western countries have made their recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan conditional on the Taliban ending constant human rights violations.

Let them renounce their draconian laws.

Instead, their counterparts look for opportunities. Pakistan has opened the door for Afghanistan to join the Chinese Pakistani Corridor (CPEC) an infrastructure integrated into the China-led Belt and Road Initiative.

Chinese Foreign Spokesman Wang Wenbin recently said that his country "supports all international efforts that are beneficial for the promotion of peace and stability in Afghanistan." However,

China, like Pakistan, declined an invitation from India to participate in a forum on Afghanistan

that was attended by Russian and Iranian delegates, showing that there are several open fronts from which they struggle to whisper in the ear of the Taliban .

Fundamentalists are the ones who benefit the most from all this diplomatic turmoil around them. Although the Islamic Emirate's Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, was unable to participate in the troika plus summit, his mere presence on Pakistani soil, where he had arrived a day earlier, was significant. This has become the

first official trip for a member of the new Afghan government.

Muttaqi was received by his Pakistani counterpart.

"We have no concerns. These meetings are for the benefit of Afghanistan because the entire region believes that the security of Afghanistan is for the benefit of all," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Wednesday.

Yet fundamentalists continue to reject all foreign aid to fight the

Islamic State in Khorasan, the new threat

that has sparked three major civilian bloodbaths on Afghan soil, apart from numerous more attacks on Taliban forces.

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