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The U.N. and international governments have fiercely condemned the restrictions on feminine schooling and employment, and the worldwide neighborhood stays cautious of formally recognizing the Taliban, though some international locations retain an lively diplomatic mission in Afghanistan, together with Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, and China.
“The Islamic Emirate has despatched diplomats to at the least 14 international locations and efforts are underway to take cost of different diplomatic missions overseas,” the federal government’s essential spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid mentioned in a video. “Diplomats of the previous authorities are persevering with their actions in coordination with the International Ministry.”
The administration has despatched its diplomats to Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Russia, China, Kazakhstan and different Arab and African international locations, in keeping with Mujahid. He gave no additional particulars.
In February, authorities handed over management of Afghanistan’s embassy in Tehran to envoys of the Taliban authorities. It was beforehand staffed by envoys from the previous U.S.-backed Afghan authorities.
The deputy spokesman for the federal government, Bilal Karimi, was unable to instantly present figures on what number of Afghan diplomatic missions are lively abroad or what number of the administration has taken cost of since August 2021.
“There are lots of embassies overseas. The Islamic Emirate desires to have diplomatic relations with all international locations and transfer ahead with good interactions,” he informed The Related Press. “It’s our hope that embassies can be opened in all international locations as quickly as official relations start with the Islamic Emirate.”
The International Ministry spokesman didn’t reply to the AP’s questions on embassies.
In January, the highest-ranking girl on the United Nations, Amina Mohammed, mentioned the Taliban need worldwide recognition and Afghanistan’s U.N. seat, which is at the moment held by the previous authorities led by Ashraf Ghani.
“Recognition is one leverage that we have now and we must always maintain on to,” she mentioned, after assembly Taliban ministers in Kabul and Kandahar to attempt to reverse their crackdowns on ladies and ladies.
They’ve banned ladies from center faculty, highschool and college and banned ladies from most fields of employment, together with at nongovernmental teams. Ladies have additionally been ordered to put on head-to-toe clothes in public and are barred from parks and gymnasiums.
Faculties reopened for the brand new tutorial 12 months final week with out teenage ladies, greater than 18 months after the ban on secondary schooling got here into impact.
Universities reopened after the winter break in early March with out their feminine college students, and the ban on NGO work continues to be in place, though some help businesses have partially resumed their actions via exemptions.
Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, mentioned Friday that greater than three months have handed because the “insupportable ban” on feminine help staff in Afghanistan. “We now have made some native progress, permitting ladies’s return to work, however nonetheless await nationwide permits.”
