The Russian ambassador to Kabul Alexander Mantetskey, said: “We will never endeavor to finance and equip the armed opposition groups who are fighting against Afghanistan government and its security forces because equipping and supporting this group has no benefit.
During earlier Taliban rule, Iran, Russia, and India supported the Northern Alliance to which Abdullah Abdullah belonged through Tajikistan.
Photo: Pasbanan Media
Free media have directly contributed to the rapid development of a still growing civil society and have empowered such vulnerable groups as women, youth, and the poor—a clear majority in Afghanistan—to increasingly exercise their rights under the country’s progressive constitution.
Photo: Afghanistan Government Media and Information Centre
‘In Syria, with assistance from Russian Federation, this phenomenon of ISIL was demolished. We thought that after living in Syria these fighters will go to other countries, and we wanted to demolish there, not in Russia,”
While the government’s stated policy is that we would support the govt or the interim govt of Afghanistan, I’m certain that at an informal level we have the ways and means to access some segments of Taliban
India has contributed more than$2 billion for Afghan reconstruction and majorly in Afghan civil capacity building. It is worried all the gains made may unravel
India’s policy consistency and significant contribution in civil capacity building has made us popular across the politico-ethnic spectrum in Afghanistan.; this does not mean that we don’t have the channels open with the Taliban
Rivals Russia and China back the US on the key formula of a peace deal it is negotiating in Afghanistan – withdrawing troops in return for Taliban pledges not to welcome foreign extremists.
Women are worried that even religious conservatives, warlords and strongmen who dominate Afghanistan’s US-backed leadership – and whose attitudes toward women often differ little from the Taliban – will trade away their rights to reach a deal.
KABUL – At a dinner party in Kabul’s high-security “green zone” in March, a senior European