Ipse by Tag - Taliban

Fawzia Koofi

Inserted 2 years ago

“In the situation where there is a lot of disunity and the political community of Afghanistan has not taken steps to unite and have a common position at the negotiation table, the talks will further weaken our position and further boost that of the Taliban.”

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Former deputy speaker of Afghanistan’s parliament

24 Jan 2022 2 2

Fatima Rae

Inserted 2 years ago

“Restarting girls' schools is a good thing, [but] they need to be firm on their promise. These words should not just be for the sake of taking a stand. The Taliban does not like to see young girls at all. The big obstacle for girls [in Afghanistan] is that the Taliban says they should only leave the house with a mahram [male guardian]. The second problem is that if women are not allowed to work, education is meaningless.”

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Kabul-based women’s rights activist

17 Jan 2022 6 3

Eloom Bibi

Inserted 2 years ago

“Charity from people helped me a lot. But now, there's nothing [coming in] and I understand why. People are jobless. There are thousands of widows in this country who used to work. Now that the Taliban has taken over the country, all women have been made to stay home. What can a woman do to support her family? Things were better before. My kids were going to school - girls and boys. We used to receive donations, and women were free.”

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Widowed mother of six from Shemol village on the outskirts of Jalalabad

12 Jan 2022 6 2

Nayera Koahistani

Inserted 2 years ago

“I want to tell the world, tell the Taliban to stop killing. We want freedom, we want justice, we want human rights. Women's rights are human rights. We must defend our rights.”

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Protester in Kabul

28 Dec 2021 5 3

Ahmad Nader Nadery

Inserted 2 years ago

“It was the most crucifying pain. Everything was going to crumble down, all that we worked and built in the past 20 years.”

Nytimes

Former senior advisor to the president of Afghanistan

24 Dec 2021 2 3

Imran Khan

Inserted 2 years ago

“They [the US] must de-link the Taliban government from 40 million Afghan citizens, even if they [have] been in conflict with Taliban for 20 years.”

Aljazeera

Prime Minister of Pakistan

19 Dec 2021 5 3

Josep Borrell

Inserted 2 years ago

“We share with Qatar the understanding that some operational engagement with the interim government is necessary, but without granting them any legitimacy. This engagement has to be conditional on progress made by the Taliban along the five benchmarks that we defined back in September.”

Tolonews

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

14 Dec 2021 3 2

Jen Psaki

Inserted 2 years ago

“There are a number of reasons why these reserves remain inaccessible. First and foremost, the status of the funds is the subject of ongoing litigation, brought by certain victims of 9/11 and other terrorist attacks to hold judgments against the Taliban. These legal proceedings cannot be disregarded and have led to the temporary suspension of any movement of the funds through at least the end of the year and quite possibly longer. Second, the United States continues to face difficult fundamental questions about how it might be able to make reserve funds available to directly benefit the people of Afghanistan while ensuring that the funds do not benefit the Taliban. And, obviously, our objective as one of the world's biggest providers of humanitarian assistance is to get that assistance directly to the people. It is difficult to determine how that would not go through - would not benefit the Taliban as it relates to these funds. Third, the Taliban remain sanctioned by the United States as a specially designated global terrorist group, and a number of its officials are subject to the UN - UNSCR's 1988 sanctions regime. This raises immediate red flags for many states' central banks and the financial community more generally when considering any transactions.”

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White House spokeswoman

13 Dec 2021 7 3

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are thinking of an organisation between several European countries … a common location for several Europeans, which would allow our ambassadors to be present. This is a different demarche than a political recognition or political dialogue with the Taliban … we will have a representation as soon as we can open.”

Aljazeera

President of France

04 Dec 2021 5 3

Hamid Karzai

Inserted 2 years ago

“I have had conversations with them [Taliban] on a lot of issues--the return of women to back to work. The schools, the flag of the country, the national flag of the country. And the need for a political process, for a government that belongs to all Afghans, that all Afghans see as theirs--that is inclusive. We really ... want them to go back to school - the girls - not only to schools but to universities, but to the workplace. Yes, we have had talks about this with the Taliban. They hear me on this. They understand it and they say that it will happen. We say that it should happen now, immediately.”

Tolonews

Former President of Afghanistan

03 Dec 2021 2 3

Heather Barr

Inserted 2 years ago

“It's been becoming more and more clear to the Taliban over the last three and a half months that women's rights, particularly girls education, is a really serious barrier to achieving some things that they want from the international community - recognition, legitimacy, funding, unfreezing of assets.”

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Associate director of women's rights at Human Rights Watch

03 Dec 2021 4 1

Patricia Gossman

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Taliban leadership's promised amnesty has not stopped local commanders from summarily executing or disappearing former Afghan security force members. The burden is on the Taliban to prevent further killings, hold those responsible to account, and compensate the victims' families.”

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Associate Asia director at Human Rights Watch

30 Nov 2021 6 2

Mateusz Morawiecki

Inserted 2 years ago

“Today, on Poland's Eastern border, we are dealing with a new type of war, a war in which migrants are weapons, in which disinformation is a weapon, a hybrid war. [I received] information that the difficult situation in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country in August may by used as the next stage of the migration crisis. I think that the things that unfold before our eyes, these dramatic events, may only be a prelude to something much worse.”

Reuters

Prime Minister of Poland

21 Nov 2021 7 3

Yongbiao Zhu

Inserted 2 years ago

“Muttaqi's [Amir Khan Muttaqi] visit to Pakistan is likely to be transactional with discussions on practical issues of mutual concern, including Afghan Taliban's role as mediator between the Pakistani government and the Pakistani Taliban.”

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Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies in Lanzhou University

08 Nov 2021 5 1

Zabihullah Mujahid

Inserted 2 years ago

“Our message to America is, if unrecognition continues, Afghan problems continue, it is the problem of the region and could turn into a problem for the world. The reason the Taliban and the United States went to war last time was also because the two did not have formal diplomatic ties. Those issues which caused the war, they could have been solved through negotiation, they could have been solved through political compromise too.”

Reuters

Taliban spokesman

30 Oct 2021 4 3

Mohammad Hossein Emadi

Inserted 2 years ago

“Iran has come to understand that the enemy's enemy is not your friend, and the Taliban are a more complex problem than Americans. The consensus is to deal with the Taliban very carefully and pragmatically.”

Nytimes

Former Iranian diplomat who advised Afghanistan’s government and worked in the country for the United Nations

26 Oct 2021 3 2

Kamal Kharazi

Inserted 2 years ago

“Our strategy in Afghanistan completely depends on the Taliban's behavior. The Islamic Republic of Iran does not want to meddle in Afghanistan's affairs but naturally we have legitimate interests that must be guaranteed.”

Nytimes

Head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations

22 Oct 2021 (approx) 3 2

Arkady Dubnov

Inserted 2 years ago

“Russia is important to the Taliban as a lobbyist for their political ambitions. We are permanent members of the UN Security Council. And the new government of Afghanistan wants to get a seat at the UN. Moscow can lobby for the removal of the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations at the UN Security Council, which, in principle, should lead to diplomatic recognition of the new Kabul government.”

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Russian expert on Central and South Asia

22 Oct 2021 4 5

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 2 years ago

“These decisions were made at the level of the United Nations. Our expectation is that these people, the Taliban, that now clearly control Afghanistan, will see that the situation develops in a positive way. If that happens, we would decide to take them off the list of terrorist organizations.”

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Russian president

21 Oct 2021 4 3

Shah Mahmood Qureshi

Inserted 2 years ago

“We had inclusive talks with the Taliban officials and met the Prime Minister and other cabinet members.”

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Pakistan Foreign Minister

21 Oct 2021 2 3

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“In the situation where there is a lot of disunity and the political community of Afghanistan has not taken steps to unite and have a common position at the negotiation table, the talks will further weaken our position and further boost that of the Taliban.”

“I want to tell the world, tell the Taliban to stop killing. We want freedom, we want justice, we want human rights. Women's rights are human rights. We must defend our rights.”

“It was the most crucifying pain. Everything was going to crumble down, all that we worked and built in the past 20 years.”

“They [the US] must de-link the Taliban government from 40 million Afghan citizens, even if they [have] been in conflict with Taliban for 20 years.”

“We share with Qatar the understanding that some operational engagement with the interim government is necessary, but without granting them any legitimacy. This engagement has to be conditional on progress made by the Taliban along the five benchmarks that we defined back in September.”

“The Taliban leadership's promised amnesty has not stopped local commanders from summarily executing or disappearing former Afghan security force members. The burden is on the Taliban to prevent further killings, hold those responsible to account, and compensate the victims' families.”

“Muttaqi's [Amir Khan Muttaqi] visit to Pakistan is likely to be transactional with discussions on practical issues of mutual concern, including Afghan Taliban's role as mediator between the Pakistani government and the Pakistani Taliban.”

“Iran has come to understand that the enemy's enemy is not your friend, and the Taliban are a more complex problem than Americans. The consensus is to deal with the Taliban very carefully and pragmatically.”

“Our strategy in Afghanistan completely depends on the Taliban's behavior. The Islamic Republic of Iran does not want to meddle in Afghanistan's affairs but naturally we have legitimate interests that must be guaranteed.”

“These decisions were made at the level of the United Nations. Our expectation is that these people, the Taliban, that now clearly control Afghanistan, will see that the situation develops in a positive way. If that happens, we would decide to take them off the list of terrorist organizations.”

“We had inclusive talks with the Taliban officials and met the Prime Minister and other cabinet members.”

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