Washington announced that its envoy to Afghanistan, Thomas West, went to Doha on Saturday to hold meetings with Taliban leaders, while Saudi Arabia called for an extraordinary ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.
The US State Department said on Monday evening that the US envoy to Afghanistan went to Doha on Saturday to hold meetings with Taliban leaders, explaining that the goal of the Doha meetings is to promote US interests in Afghanistan through frank dialogue with representatives of the movement.
In the latest field developments, an Afghan source told Al-Jazeera that the dead and wounded were killed in the explosion of an explosive device on the road between Jalalabad and Torkham crossing with Pakistan.
Council of Islamic Cooperation
On the other hand, the Saudi Press Agency said that the Kingdom sees the necessity of holding an extraordinary meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Islamic Cooperation Council, consisting of 57 countries, to discuss the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.
She added that the Kingdom is looking forward to holding this meeting, which Pakistan offered to host on December 17, explaining that its invitation comes from considering Saudi Arabia as the head of the current Islamic Summit.
The agency stated that the Afghan people are facing a serious humanitarian crisis that will worsen with the onset of winter, and that they need urgent humanitarian aid, including food, medicine and shelter, warning of a possible economic collapse of the state and a further deterioration of living conditions that may lead to more instability in the region.
UAE restricts rich
In another context, Deputy Spokesman for the Taliban Interim Government in Afghanistan, Ahmadullah Wathiq, said that the UAE imposed restrictions on former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, his former security advisor Hamdullah Muhib, and the former governor of Balkh province Atta Muhammad Noor.
Wathiq did not elaborate on what restrictions the UAE had imposed on the political activities of the former Afghan officials.
It is noteworthy that former President Ghani took refuge in the UAE in mid-August, after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan completely, in parallel with a US military withdrawal from the country that was completed at the end of the same month.