Jalalabad
\nAfter the two-day meeting of the United Nations\u2019 Security Council Taliban sanctions committee concluded in Qatar\u2019s Doha city, the Taliban Wednesday rejected its demand to lift the ban on women\u2019s work and education, a foreign news agency reported.
\n\u201cThe demand is interference in Afghanistan\u2019s internal social affairs,\u201d Taliban officials said reacting to the demand made in the Doha meeting.
\nSuhail Shaheen, head of Taliban political office in Doha, asked how can the meeting\u2019s decision be accepted or implemented when their government in Afghanistan is not part of the process.
\nThe UN committee\u2019s meeting wrapped up without formal recognition of the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan.
\nHowever, the Taliban administration was not invited to this meeting where representatives of over 20 countries and international organisations participated.
\n\u201cAnother meeting will be held in the future,\u201d UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, citing the recently-concluded meeting \u201cimportant\u201d.
\nWhen asked by a journalist if there will ever be a situation when he will meet the Taliban directly, Guterres, who headed the aforementioned meeting, said: \u201cIf the time is right, I will not deny the possibility.\u201d
\nCountries that took part in the meeting included China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Britain, the United States, Uzbekistan, the European Union and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
\nA day earlier, a foreign media outlet reported that the committee had agreed to allow the Taliban administration\u2019s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi\u2019s meeting with foreign ministers and diplomats of Pakistan and China. For the meeting, Muttaqi will travel from Afghanistan to neighbouring Pakistan next week.
\nThe Afghan minister has long remained under a travel ban, arms embargo and asset freeze following sanctions by the UN Security Council.
\nAccording to a letter to the 15-member Security Council Taliban sanctions committee, Pakistan\u2019s UN mission requested an exemption for Muttaqi to travel between May 6-9 \u201cfor a meeting with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jalalabad After the two-day meeting of the United Nations\u2019 Security Council Taliban sanctions committee concluded in Qatar\u2019s Doha city, the Taliban Wednesday rejected its demand to lift the ban on women\u2019s work and education, a foreign news agency reported. \u201cThe demand is interference in Afghanistan\u2019s internal social affairs,\u201d Taliban officials said reacting to the demand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-329145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n