The Taliban said Tuesday the war in Afghanistan was over and that all their opponents would be pardoned, as they held their first news conference since seizing power from the Western- backed government in Kabul.
“War has ended. (the leader) has pardoned everyone,” spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said, adding”We’re committed to letting women work in agreement with the principles of Islam.”
The Taliban on Tuesday declared that no trouble will be posed to any country from Afghanistan as the group took charge of the strife- torn country following a surprisingly rapid-fire collapse of its popular government with the departure of utmost western colors.
“The Islamic emirate is pledging to all world countries that no trouble will be posed to any country from Afghanistan,”Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid told journalists at their first press conference in Kabul in which he blazoned an Islamic government will be established in Afghanistan soon.
The Taliban news conference came as the United States and Western abettors vacated diplomats and civilians the day after scenes of chaos at Kabul field as Afghans hopeless to flee the Taliban flocked to the terminal.
Britain on Tuesday blazoned a resettlement scheme for Afghans fleeing the Taliban after their return to power, offering an original places in the first time, rising to over to in the long term.
The advertisement came on the dusk of an extraordinary session of congress on Wednesday, where MPs recalled from vacation will bandy the collapse of the Afghan government, so soon after the pullout of Western forces.
Some 900 British colors have been transferred back to the Afghan capital to help repudiate thousands of UK citizens, including delegacy staff, following the Islamists’ return.
London said precedence would be given to those most at threat, including Afghan women, children and others forced to flee or facing pitfalls and persecution from the hardliners, offering them a chance to remain in Britain indefinitely.
“This resettlement scheme will be kept under farther review for unborn times, with over to a aggregate of in the long term,”the Home Office said in a statement.
TheU.S. Air Force said on Tuesday that it was probing the circumstances girding mortal remains that were plant in the wheel well of one of its C-17s that flew out of Kabul amid the chaos of the Taliban taking over the megacity.
In a statement, the Air Force said that the aircraft landed at Kabul’s field on Monday and was girdled by hundreds of Afghan civilians.
“Faced with a fleetly deteriorating security situation around the aircraft, the C-17 crew decided to depart the airport as snappily as possible,”the statement said.