Qatar reaches an agreement with Taliban to resume flight: Report | Taliban Stories

The deal quoted by Axios allows for airline rentals once a week and comes at a time when the US says it wants to rehabilitate Afghan residents.

Qatar has reached an agreement with the Taliban to resume lending flight planes from Afghanistan, to resolve a dispute that led to several months of respite, according to the report.

Axios news agency, in a statement to Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, said on Monday that Qatar and the Taliban had agreed to operate two Qatar Airways flights a week.

The alliance is expected to allow thousands of vulnerable Afghan and foreign nationals to leave the country to follow. the departure of chaos with U.S. forces and other foreign troops in August last year, when the Taliban seized the capital Kabul, following lightning strikes across the country.

The change comes after Axios said last week that the US was planning to resume its flight operations and restructuring.

Qatar since September has been operating the latest flights from Kabul. However, the planes stopped early in December between a dispute with Taliban over which passengers were allowed to fly, according to Reuters. The first month-long flight departed from Kabul to Doha on January 26, it said.

Axios’ interview with Sheikh Mohammed followed the White House meeting Monday between US President Joe Biden and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

U.S. officials have repeatedly praised Qatar’s role in serving as a mediator for the Taliban, who fought in the US war for 20 years in Afghanistan. Washington, which does not officially recognize the Taliban as the country’s official state, in November he announced Qatar will serve as its ambassador to Afghanistan.

At Monday’s meeting, Biden too was informed The Qatari leader said his superiors wanted to elect a Gulf state, home to US Central Command troops in the region, “a major non-NATO ally”. Qatar is the second country in the Gulf, after Kuwait, to receive names.

The position gives Doha unique economic and military opportunities in its relations with Washington.

The US and other western countries have been pampanpani to increase the migration of Afghan people working with foreign troops in the country and appear to be subject to Taliban oversight.

Lawyers say thousands of Afghanistan’s close ties to US forces are still in the country.

On Monday, the United Nations said it had received credible reports on the killings of about 100 Afghan Taliban linked to the previous regime since its inception.

The world is also in the grip of a humanitarian crisis that has left 23 million people at risk of starvation.