Qatar reaches deal with Taliban to resume evacuations: Report

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Qatar has reached an agreement with the Taliban to continue flight rental evacuation from Afghanistan, ending a dispute that resulted in the pause for months, according to a report.

Axios News Agency, quoted an interview with Foreign Minister Qatar Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, reported on Monday that Qatar and Taliban have agreed to operate two Qatar Airways flights rented per week.

This agreement is expected to enable thousands of vulnerable Afghans and foreign nationals to be evacuated from the state after withdrawal of Kacauwan by United States forces and other foreign forces in August last year, when the Taliban took the capital, following lightning to allude quickly allude throughout the country.

The update came after Axios was reported last week that US plans to increase evacuation and resettlement efforts again.

Qatar has since September operate Sporadic rented flight from Kabul. However, the flights stopped in early December in the midst of a dispute with the Taliban where passengers were allowed on flights, according to the Reuters news agency. The first evacuation flight in a few months took off from Kabul to Doha on January 26, reported.

Axios interview with Sheikh Mohammed attended the White House meeting on Monday between US President Joe Biden and Qatar belonging to Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

US officials have repeatedly praised the role of Qatar in serving as an intermediary with the Taliban, which fought with the US for 20 years in Afghanistan. Washington, who officially did not recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government in this country, in November announcing Qatar will function as a representative in Afghanistan.

During the Monday meeting, Biden also told the Qatar leader that his government planned to appoint the Gulf state, home to the US military center command in the region, a “non-nato main allied”. Qatar is the second country in the bay, after Kuwait, to accept the appointment.

The US and other Western countries have been under pressure to increase the evacuation of Afghanistan working with foreign forces in the country and are considered very likely targeted by the Taliban.

Advocates said tens of thousands of Afghans with a bond close to the US military remained in the country.

On Monday, the United Nations said he had received credible reports about the murder by the Taliban around 100 Afghans connected with former government since the group was in power.