A 9-member delegation led via way of means of Taliban chief Mullah Baradar Akhund met Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councilor Wang Yi on Tuesday. The Taliban chief confident Beijing that they may now no longer permit Afghanistan for use in opposition to protection of any country.
With frontline Taliban chief Mullah Baradar Akhund assembly Chinese overseas minister Wang Yi on July 27, the conservative Sunni Islamist organization is searching for guide of Beijing to make bigger its footprint in Afghanistan after assuring the middle-nation that Afghanistan beneathneath Taliban will now no longer permit its territory to be utilized by terrorists to goal any 1/3 country. The warranty become given via way of means of Mullah Barader as Beijing is involved that Uighur extremist motion might also additionally get safe haven in Emirate of Afghanistan thru the Wakhan corridor.
Mullah Baradar travelled to China for 2 days as the top of a high-rating delegation of 9 humans and held separate conferences with Wang, China’s deputy overseas minister and Chinese unique consultant for Afghanistan, the Taliban stated in a declaration.
“The conferences centered on political, monetary and protection problems associated with the 2 international locations, the cutting-edge scenario in Afghanistan and the peace process,” the declaration added.
By reassuring Beijing that it’s going to now no longer permit the Afghan territory for use in opposition to any 1/3 country, the Taliban are looking to allay worldwide fears that Pakistan-primarily based totally terror agencies and pan-Islamic agencies like Al Qaeda will now no longer use the civilian strife in Afghanistan to set up terror schooling camps for focused on international locations against radical Islam. During its first time period in strength among 1996-2001, the Taliban gave safe haven to majority of pan-Islamic terrorist agencies like Al Qaeda, Harkat-ul-Ansar, HuJI Bangladesh, held schooling camps for Pakistan-primarily based totally agencies like Lashkar-e-Taiba and certainly subsidized worldwide jihad across the world.
The Taliban delegation additionally thanked China for its endured cooperation with the humans of Afghanistan, in particular its endured cooperation withinside the combat in opposition to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
According to Afghanistan watchers, the Taliban, with guide in their handlers Pakistan, are searching for warranty from China to assist them set up an emirate in Afghanistan lest US has 2nd mind at the Sunni organization after reviews of huge numbers of civilian casualties.
The US has already declared that it’s going to depart Afghanistan on August 31. “While Pakistan is attempting to leverage its have an effect on on Taliban to get near revive its ties with the US, the Sunni Islamist organization is piggybacking on Islamabad to bolster its ties with China. The Chinese, on their part, are searching in the direction of increasing the Belt and Road initiative into Afghanistan and thereon to Central Asia for taking a grip on bilateral exchange with Afghanistan and exploiting assets like coal, copper and iron ore in that country,” stated diplomats primarily based totally in US and India.
China desires to use Afghanistan as a path to Central Asian republics of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
