{"id":11739,"date":"2021-09-04T07:05:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T07:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2021-09-04T07:05:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T07:05:03","slug":"taliban-delegation-meets-pakistan-uk-and-germany-envoys-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2021\/09\/04\/taliban-delegation-meets-pakistan-uk-and-germany-envoys-in-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban delegation meets Pakistan, UK and Germany envoys in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have started reaching out to the world in an attempt to address the concerns of the international community and held meetings with a number of ambassadors based in Doha, Qatar in the last couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>The head,\u00a0Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, of Taliban\u2019s Political Office in Doha, met the envoys of Pakistan, UK and Germany and discussed matters related to the crisis in the war-torn country, Taliban Spokesman Suhail Shaheen said in a series of tweets Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He shared that the Taliban delegation met with Pakistani ambassador Syed Ahsan Raza Shah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBoth sides discussed the current Afghan situation, humanitarian assistance, bilateral relations based on mutual interest and respect, reconstruction of Afghanistan and issues related to facilitating people\u2019s movement at Torkhan and Spinboldak,\u201d the spokesman wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-embeds\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-embed\">\n<div id=\"1433903683700461572\" class=\"embed_external_url tweetPost\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" 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class=\"medium-insert-embeds-overlay\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The ambassador also hosted a dinner in honour of the visiting delegation, according to the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban spokesperson said the Political Office delegation has also held meetings with the UK, Indian and Canadian officials in the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting with Simon Gass, Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of UK and his delegation in Doha, Suhail Shaheen said humanitarian assistance, political and security topics as well as mutual relations came under discussion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK delegation reiterated that they had already increased their humanitarian assistance and was ready to cooperate with IEA in future as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-embeds\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-embed\">\n<div id=\"1433645305975775235\" class=\"embed_external_url tweetPost\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet 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Afghanistan can play an important role in the security and development of the region. China will also continue and increase its humanitarian assistance especially for the treatment of COVID-19,\u201d Suhail Shaheen stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Taliban have started reaching out to the world in an attempt to address the concerns of the international community and held meetings with a number of ambassadors based in Doha, Qatar in the last couple of days. The head,\u00a0Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, of Taliban\u2019s Political Office in Doha, met the envoys of Pakistan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11741,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions\/11741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}