Afghanistan Taliban Crisis LIVE Updates Assailants struck Taliban vehicles in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least two fighters and three civilians in the closing violence since the group’s arrogation of the country inmid-August.
According to the Associated Press, in one attack, guns opened fire on a Taliban vehicle at a autochthonous gas station in the insular capital of Jalalabad, killing two fighters and a gas station attendant, confirmations said. A child was also killed, they added.
Another child was killed and two Taliban were wounded in a separate attack — a bombing of another vehicle. Another bombing of a Taliban vehicle in Jalalabad also wounded a person in, although it was unclear if that person was a Taliban officeholder or not.
The evidences spoke on condition of nowhere for fear of requital.
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Taliban nominates mouthpiece Suhail Shaheen as Afghan envoy to UN
The Taliban, Afghanistan’s new monarchs for a matter of weeks, are challenging the credentials of their country’s former UN emissary and want to speak at the General Assembly’s high- position meeting of world leaders this week, the multinational body says.
The question now facing UN functionaries comes just over a month after the Taliban, ejected from Afghanistan by the United States and its backers after9/11, swept back into power as US forces prepared to withdraw from the country at the end of August.
UN mouthpiece Stephane Dujarric said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres admitted communication on September 15 from the presently accredited Afghan Ambassador, Ghulam Isaczai, with the list of Afghanistan’s delegation for the assembly’s 76th daily session.
UK calls on China and Russia to agree Afghanistan strategy
Britain will on Wednesday call for China and Russia to agree a coordinated foreign approach to avert Afghanistan from coming a haven for crusaders, according to a statement by British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at the United Nations.
Foreign ministers from Britain, China, Russia, the United States and France will meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during the UN General Assembly in New York.
Britain, which is presentlyco-ordinating the so- called P5 group of eternal United Nations Security Council members, will use the meeting to call for first-rate cooperation to enrich multinational security, with a particular focus on Afghanistan.
Qatar’s sovereign urges world leaders not to resell Taliban
The ruling emir of Qatar, whose nation has played a vital task in Afghanistan in the wake of the US retreat, prompted world leaders gathered at the United Nations on Tuesday against turning their tails on the country’s Taliban sovereigns.
Speaking from the tribune of the UN General Assembly, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani stressed “ the necessity of continuing dialogue with Taliban because boycott only leads to polarisation and takes, whereas dialogue could bring in positive results.” His warning was directed at the numerous heads of state unquiet about engaging with the Taliban and recognising their usurpation of Afghanistan.
US Def Sec thanks India for its cooperation on Afghan evacuation
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin in a phone call with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh has thanked India for its cooperation during the recent evacuation from Afghanistan and the two leaders committed to continue watching the situation in the war- torn country, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
The chat between Austin and Defence Minister Singh came ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US this week to attend an in-person apogee of Close leaders in Washington and address the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.
UK minister sorry over Afghan exponents’data breach
Britain’s defence minister apologised and his ministry suspended an functionary on Tuesday after a “ significant” data breach involving the airmail addresses of dozens of Afghan exponents hoping to settle in the UK.
A Defence Ministry memorandum to further than 250 Afghans who are eligible for relocation and still remain in Afghanistan was inaccurately copied to all prospects Monday instead of visionless copied. British media reports said the people whose memorandum addresses were distributed included some substances who are in hiding from the Taliban.
“ It’s an unsatisfactory station of service that has let down the thousands of members of the underprepared forces and vets. On behalf of the Ministry of Defense, I apologise,” Defense Minister Ben Wallace told Parliament.
