Pakistan urges global engagement with Taliban to avert crisis
Published 23 Sep,2021 via Dawn ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Wednesday underscored the need for international engagement with the Taliban government in Afghanistan to prevent humanitarian crisis and economic collapse.
The Foreign Office said this in a statement as special envoys of Russia, China and Pakistan reached Islamabad after their two-day visit to Kabul during which they met Afghanistan’s Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund, Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mutaqi and other high-level officials of the caretaker government of Taliban.
They also met with former Afghan president Hamid Karzai and former head of the High Council on National Reconciliation Abdullah.
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