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The Taliban volition not let Afghan territory to beryllium utilized against immoderate country, said Amir Khan Muttaqi, Foreign Minister of the Taliban medication successful Afghanistan.
Mr. Muttaqi, the archetypal high-level Taliban person to beryllium hosted by India, held a uncommon media enactment successful the Embassy of Afghanistan wherever helium pitched for stronger bilateral commercialized ties done the Wagah borderline crossing betwixt India and Pakistan.
“Today, we held a elaborate treatment connected our information concerns. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has proved successful the past 4 years that the territory of Afghanistan volition not beryllium utilized against others. Similarly, narcotics is unsafe successful presumption of its usage arsenic good arsenic trafficking, and some sides agreed to transportation out joint efforts to eradicate this problem,” said Mr. Muttaqi successful his opening remarks. He emphasised that nether the regularisation of the Taliban, panic groups from Pakistan, specified arsenic the Lashkar-e-Taiba, that were known to usage Afghan territory to bid their cadre, person been pushed retired of the Afghan territory.
No associated operations
In effect to a question connected India and Afghanistan carrying retired associated operations to escaped Afghanistan of panic groups, Mr. Muttaqi said, “There is nary question of planetary terrorists surviving successful today’s Afghanistan wherever the authorities of the Islamic Emirate is strong.”
“Joint operations would person been indispensable if terrorists were recovered operating successful Afghanistan. We carried retired extended operations against terrorists wrong Afghanistan implicit the past 4 years. During this period, nary menace has emanated from the territory of Afghanistan targeting immoderate country,” said Mr. Muttaqi successful effect to a question connected whether Taliban would beryllium consenting to initiate associated enactment with India targeting terrorists successful its territory.
Mr. Muttaqi, who utilized an interpreter to talk successful Pashtu and besides spoke successful Urdu, reiterated the Islamic quality of the Taliban medication and said, “Our authorities is based connected Islamic rule and we privation to person affable and brotherly ties with each countries successful our region. This is an accidental for India besides to revive the relationship.”
He refused to corroborate reports that suggested that Pakistan carried retired airstrikes successful Kabul that near the person of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan dormant and maintained that locals complained of “some sound but did not witnesser immoderate attack”.
Better commercialized ties
Mr. Muttaqi urged greater commercialized ties with India and said attempts should beryllium made to fortify commercialized done Pakistani territory, particularly done the Wagah borderline saying that commercialized done Wagah is economically viable for Afghans. “India and Pakistan should not unopen Wagah arsenic it provides a inexpensive way to us,” said Mr. Muttaqi, who besides called for India to usage the Iranian larboard of Chabahar.
“There are immoderate obstacles connected Chabahar due to the fact that of U.S. sanctions. But these obstacles should beryllium removed. In the past 1 year, India-Afghanistan commercialized has crossed $1 billion, truthful you tin ideate however overmuch commercialized we tin bash if these obstacles are dealt with,” said Mr. Muttaqi.
He said that the Taliban volition not manus implicit the Bagram airbase to the U.S. arsenic being demanded by President Donald Trump and said, “history is witness” that the radical of Afghanistan bash not admit the beingness of overseas troops connected their soil.
“Afghanistan has attained independency aft 4 decades and everyone should enactment our escaped existence,” said Mr. Muttaqi successful the property enactment that drew crisp disapproval online for being “all male” and for excluding women reporters. Several women journalists who reached the Afghan embassy were seen sitting extracurricular the premises and were not allowed to enter.
“The information of women nether Taliban has improved conscionable similar the wide instrumentality and bid situation. If the women would person disapproved our rules, they would person travel retired successful protest,” said Mr. Muttaqi, answering a question portion describing disapproval of the Taliban connected sex issues arsenic “international propaganda”.
There were melodramatic moments earlier the property league erstwhile officials accompanying Mr. Muttaqi were challenged by representatives of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan who proceed to tally the affairs of the Afghan embassy successful Delhi. The embassy officials objected erstwhile Mr. Muttaqi’s companions removed the emblem of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan that was overthrown by Taliban successful August 2021.
“This is not a Taliban embassy yet and we volition not let your emblem here,” said 1 of the unit members arsenic helium prevented the usage of a ample black-white emblem of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. However, the Taliban squad came acceptable with a tiny table-top emblem that Mr. Muttaqi placed earlier him portion addressing the media.
Earlier, the Taliban’s emblem was not utilized during Mr. Muttaqi’s gathering with Mr. Jaishankar successful Hyderabad House as, contempt the high-level engagement, India is yet to formally recognise the Taliban. Mr. Muttaqi, however, promised to nonstop Taliban diplomats to the Afghan embassy successful Delhi and said, “First we volition nonstop our diplomats and dilatory we volition upgrade.”
Mr. Muttaqi is scheduled to sojourn Darul Uloom successful Deoband connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) wherever helium volition clasp meetings with students and teachers of the Islamic seminary.
