ISLAMABAD: Afghan Taliban has intensified its efforts to open completely different channels of communication with the regional and neighbouring nations within the wake of its relations with Pakistan continuously declining and rising extra hostile submit US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Along with participation in World Financial Discussion board in St Petersburg, Russia, the Taliban leaders had reached out to Iran, China, Russia and the UAE.Nations in West Asia and elsewhere have additionally reached out to them.
Lately, Abu Dhabi ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had a gathering in Kabul with Taliban house minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who additionally heads the Haqqani community, a robust faction inside the governing group.
Kabul had approached New Delhi, by means of its deputy international minister Sher Muhammad Abbas Stanikzai, quickly after the formation of the interim govt in Afghanistan in 2021. The correspondence between the 2 sides had opened a window for communication, which culminated into formal contacts.
Quite the opposite, the ties between Islamabad and Kabul are rising extra hostile each day. Kabul’s refusal to curb the alleged actions of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants on its soil has significantly dented relations between the 2 nations. Journey restrictions on Afghan nationals and the expulsion of Afghan refugees from Pakistan additional worsened the ties.
Consultants counsel that Kabul’s diplomatic efforts won’t yield any outcomes till they deal with fixing issues resembling human rights, ladies’s training and employment.
Sweden-based Afghan analyst Nur Rehman Sherzad mentioned that since coming to energy in August 2021, the Taliban govt has not formulated any international coverage.
In accordance with him, a govt that’s not formally recognised by any nation doesn’t have diplomatic and authorized standing in its relations with the worldwide neighborhood and neighbouring nations.
“The representatives of the Taliban govt are actually regularly realising that the insurance policies of the final three years usually are not bringing any important outcomes,” Sherzad mentioned, including that officers of the worldwide neighborhood and different nations within the area go to Afghanistan additionally to tell Kabul about their safety considerations.
Describing the acceleration within the Taliban’s diplomatic efforts, Arif Yusufzai, an knowledgeable on Afghan affairs, informed TOI that a lot of these contacts assist construct mutual intelligence ties. In accordance with him, the Taliban are making many claims on their very own, however they aren’t doing what the worldwide neighborhood is asking them to do. “They don’t seem to be altering their behaviour in any respect,” he added.
Afghan journalist Abdul Haq Omari believes that Taliban at present face two challenges for the survival of their energy. One is to ascertain formal relations with international nations and the opposite is to take care of their spiritual narrative internally underneath which that they had fought for twenty years.
“The survival of the spiritual narrative is vital for the Taliban as a result of in the event that they withdraw all of a sudden, Taliban’s rival teams in Afghanistan, Islamic State or Daesh Khorasan, could strengthen the anti-Taliban narrative,” he added.
Along with participation in World Financial Discussion board in St Petersburg, Russia, the Taliban leaders had reached out to Iran, China, Russia and the UAE.Nations in West Asia and elsewhere have additionally reached out to them.
Lately, Abu Dhabi ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had a gathering in Kabul with Taliban house minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who additionally heads the Haqqani community, a robust faction inside the governing group.
Kabul had approached New Delhi, by means of its deputy international minister Sher Muhammad Abbas Stanikzai, quickly after the formation of the interim govt in Afghanistan in 2021. The correspondence between the 2 sides had opened a window for communication, which culminated into formal contacts.
Quite the opposite, the ties between Islamabad and Kabul are rising extra hostile each day. Kabul’s refusal to curb the alleged actions of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants on its soil has significantly dented relations between the 2 nations. Journey restrictions on Afghan nationals and the expulsion of Afghan refugees from Pakistan additional worsened the ties.
Consultants counsel that Kabul’s diplomatic efforts won’t yield any outcomes till they deal with fixing issues resembling human rights, ladies’s training and employment.
Sweden-based Afghan analyst Nur Rehman Sherzad mentioned that since coming to energy in August 2021, the Taliban govt has not formulated any international coverage.
In accordance with him, a govt that’s not formally recognised by any nation doesn’t have diplomatic and authorized standing in its relations with the worldwide neighborhood and neighbouring nations.
“The representatives of the Taliban govt are actually regularly realising that the insurance policies of the final three years usually are not bringing any important outcomes,” Sherzad mentioned, including that officers of the worldwide neighborhood and different nations within the area go to Afghanistan additionally to tell Kabul about their safety considerations.
Describing the acceleration within the Taliban’s diplomatic efforts, Arif Yusufzai, an knowledgeable on Afghan affairs, informed TOI that a lot of these contacts assist construct mutual intelligence ties. In accordance with him, the Taliban are making many claims on their very own, however they aren’t doing what the worldwide neighborhood is asking them to do. “They don’t seem to be altering their behaviour in any respect,” he added.
Afghan journalist Abdul Haq Omari believes that Taliban at present face two challenges for the survival of their energy. One is to ascertain formal relations with international nations and the opposite is to take care of their spiritual narrative internally underneath which that they had fought for twenty years.
“The survival of the spiritual narrative is vital for the Taliban as a result of in the event that they withdraw all of a sudden, Taliban’s rival teams in Afghanistan, Islamic State or Daesh Khorasan, could strengthen the anti-Taliban narrative,” he added.
