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Taliban restart domestic flights from Kabul airport for the first time since US exit (PHOTOS)

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Taliban restart domestic flights

The Taliban militant group controlling Afghanistan have restarted home flights from Kabul airport in a bid to obtain support from worldwide group.

It is the primary time flights have occured within the nation for the reason that US withdrew all its forces, and most of its diplomats and allies from Afghanistan on August 31,  grounding flights in and overseas.

Afghanistan’s impoverished economic system has been thrown into chaos following the autumn of the Ashraf Ghani authorities to the Taliban and with out support that has sustained the nation for years, the Islamists will discover it onerous to avert financial collapse.

Taliban restart domestic flights from Kabul airport for the first time since US exit (photos)

As one-third of the nation is dealing with meals insecurity and is in want of funds,
Western international locations have mentioned that they’re ready to interact with the ruling Taliban and ship support however that the formal recognition of regime and broader help will depend upon motion to safeguard civil liberties of residents most particularly girls.

On Saturday, September 4, following assist from the Qatari authorities who despatched engineers who restore the airstrip, the Taliban  restarted home flights from Kabul airport however fed-up Afghans are nonetheless struggling to get money out of the capital metropolis’s banks which stay closed because the Islamist militant group makes an attempt to consolidate its authority over Afghanistan.  The Qatari Ambassador to Kabul, Saeed bin Mubarak Al-Khayarin Al-Hajar, mentioned {that a} technical group was in a position to reopen Hamid Karzai worldwide airport on Saturday to obtain support from the worldwide group, Al-Jazeera information channel reported.

In keeping with Aljazeera, two home flights had been operated from Kabul to the cities of  Mazar-i-Sharif and Kandahar. It’s thought that the reopening of Kabul airport, which had been closed for the reason that finish of the US-led withdrawal on August 31, will facilitate an inflow of humanitarian support to assist avert what the United Nations has known as a ‘looming humanitarian disaster’.

Qatari Overseas Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, talking at a information convention with Overseas Secretary Dominic Raab in Doha, mentioned the Gulf state was speaking to the Taliban and dealing with Turkey for potential technical help to restart operations in Kabul airport particularly overseas flights.