Afghanistan Taliban highlights today: China backs Taliban’s demand to US to unfreeze Afghanistan’s assets
A month after winning Kabul, the Taliban faced a frightening problem when they tried to turn their lightning military victory into a long -lasting peaceful government.
After four decades of war and deaths of tens of thousands of people, security mostly increased, but the Afghan economy was in the ruins despite hundreds of billions of dollars in the expenditure of development over the past 20 years. While a lot of attention in the West has focused on whether the new Taliban government will keep its promise to protect women’s rights or offer protection to militant groups such as Al Qaeda, for many Afghan people the top priority is a simple survival.
The main cabinet member of US President Joe Biden could not try to prevent him from attracting all US troops from Afghanistan, hoping he would take advantage of withdrawals to find political settlement, a new book said.
State Secretary Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin encouraged slower withdrawals to encourage negotiations between the Governments of the Taliban and Afghanistan, according to “Peril,” a book that will come by the famous investigation journalist Bob Woodward joined in writing with his colleague Washington Post Robert Robert Robert Costa.
Blinken, an old aide for Biden who had previously been persistent in supporting his plans to end the 20 -year war, called the President from Brussels after hearing the concerns of NATO ministers during the March meeting, the book said, as reported by Agence France Presse.
The new recommendation is to extend the mission with US troops for a while to see whether it can result in political settlement. Buy time for negotiations, “he said, according to a section published by CNN before the book release next week.
Baldeep Singh, a Sikh Afghanistan, who fled to India after Afghanistan fell into the Taliban, knew three languages, including Hindi and France, but had difficulty finding work to feed his family.
This is what happened not only with Sikh that arrived in the middle of the fall of the Kabul to the Taliban on August 15, but also those who left the country before, said the 24-year-old player, who currently lived in Mahavir, only then.
Around 73 Sikh Afghanistan came to India since the takeover of the Taliban country. Some families have gone to Punjab where they have relatives. Which in Delhi depends on assistance from Gurdwara Guru Arjan Dev in New Mahavir Nagar, PTI reported. At least six families like that have lived in Gurdwara since they completed their quarantine periods at ITBP facilities in the Chhawla area.
Amarjit Singh, 45, including between 49 Sikh Afghani who flew to Delhi from Kabul through Dushanbe with India Air flights last month. He has installed in Gurdwara along with his wife and five children, one of which is three months old. “The Taliban does not care about the people themselves, forget Sikh. You don’t know what these people are experiencing, “he said.
