Kabul airport could receive flights in the coming days, Qatari envoy says

The Gulf state’s purpose is to assist set up a political settlement for lasting peace in Afghanistan making certain safety, stability and growth within the nation, a Qatari supply with data of the scenario informed CNN Friday.

There are three events engaged in discussions to renew operations at Kabul airport, the supply mentioned.

Qatar can be working intently with the worldwide group, notably these embassies relocated to Doha from Kabul, together with the US, the UK, the Netherlands, and Japan, to offer protected corridors and freedom of motion for these in Afghanistan and proceed cooperation within the struggle towards terrorism to stop any future instability within the area, the supply added.

Panjshir Valley, a mountainous, inaccessible area north of Kabul, has a protracted historical past of resisting the rebel group. Within the late Nineties, it was a middle of resistance towards the Taliban throughout their rule.

A Taliban spokesman informed CNN Saturday that its forces had made “appreciable advances” and brought 4 districts of the mountainous province. The Taliban have attacked Panjshir from a number of instructions and look like concentrating on the provincial capital, Bazarak.

A world NGO working within the space, Emergency Worldwide, mentioned in a publish on Twitter that Taliban fighters had reached the village of Anabah, which is positioned a number of kilometers from Bazarak, on Friday evening.

“In the course of the evening of Friday 3 September, Taliban forces pushed additional into the Panjshir Valley, reaching the village of Anabah the place EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre and Maternity Centre are positioned. There has thus far been no interference with EMERGENCY’s actions. We have now acquired a small variety of wounded folks on the Anabah Surgical Centre,” the tweet learn.

In a video message Friday, the previous Vice President of Afghanistan, Amrullah Saleh, mentioned there had been casualties on either side. Saleh fled to Panjshir when the earlier authorities fell in August.

“There is no such thing as a doubt we’re in a troublesome scenario. We’re underneath invasion by the Taliban,” he mentioned, earlier than including: “We is not going to give up, we’re standing for Afghanistan.”

Earlier Friday, the Nationwide Resistance Entrance claimed it had fought again enemy assaults and surrounded Taliban militia on the Khawak Move within the north-east of Panjshir.

In Kabul, the chief of the Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan social gathering, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, issued a warning Friday to the inhabitants of Panjshir, which is basically Tajik.

Hekmatyar, a former prime minister and veteran energy dealer in Afghanistan, mentioned folks mustn’t sacrifice themselves for the advantage of others. Some folks in Panjshir had been resisting the Taliban for private acquire and if defeated, they might go to different international locations, he continued.

“Our Panjshiri brothers will probably be conscious that the worst penalties of this warfare are on you greater than anybody else. You can be harmed,” Hekmatyar informed supporters in Kabul Friday, in accordance with Afghan media.