KABUL: At least seven Afghan citizens, most of them were elderly women, reportedly killed during the weekend in a crush on stamped civilians collected outside Kabul Airport in hopes of being published from the Taliban storm meeting in Afghanistan.
More than 15,000 people had gathered at Hamid Karzai International Airport in a hot heat, pushing Taliban fighters to shoot in the air to disperse the crowd, the news agency said quoting a spokesman for the British Defense Ministry.
Put the swelling of the crowd of civilians to the airport since Saturday seems to be driven by rumors about the US and Britain plans to end their evacuation mission in a few days.
Taliban checkpoints on all the way and rush at the gate to the airport, however, jammed thousands in their parade to the facility.
A NATO official was quoted as saying at least 20 people had died in and around Kabul Airport since the Taliban took control of the capital.
“Our focus is to evacuate all foreigners as soon as possible,” the official said.
“Our troops maintain a strict distance from the outside area of ​​Kabul Airport to prevent clashes with the Taliban.” A member of the Taliban Culture Commission, Abdul Qahar Balki, said it was unfortunate for people to rush to the airport despite the guarantee of a new regime that would not be harmed by them.
“We have announced public amnesty for everyone in security forces – from seniors to junior level.
This fear, this hysteria has occurred, is unfounded,” he said.
The horde of people who tried to escape from the country did not have a travel document.
They have been waiting outside the airport for several days now, hoping to be evacuated with humanitarian reasons.
“If we leave, we will not be able to come here again because the Taliban did not let the people go to the airport without a travel document,” Hashmatullah, 41, a chef at an Afghan restaurant in the capital, said.
He was accompanied by his wife, three daughters and two sons.
Hashmatullah lost his brother, an Afghan soldier, last month against the Taliban in Kandahar.
“After receiving a body that was mutilated from my man’s sister, I could not imagine that they (Taliban) had changed,” he said.
About 4,500 US troops are in a temporary control of the airport, with around 900 British soldiers also patrolling locations as part of an effort to secure evacuation flights.
Taliban fighters have become checkpoints on the streets to the airport and block Afghanistan without travel documents in.
In the midst of uncertainty that applies, talks between Taliban and Afghan political leadership continues, with both parties who negotiate on the contour of new governance, women’s rights and “inclusive arrangements”.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, a key politician Afghanistan, has met with members of the Taliban political office.
“Both parties exchanged views on the current security and political development, and the completion of inclusive politics for the country’s future,” said the Abdullah office, but did not provide further details.
However, Taliban’s leadership said that this consultation aims to reach an agreement on the inclusive system.
Balki said they also negotiated about whether to keep Kabul as the country’s capital or moved it to Kandahar, a former headquarters of armed groups.
Intra-Afghan conversation points, according to Balki, also to find a shared foundation on women’s rights.
“Islamic law is known by everyone and there is no ambiguity about women’s rights, the rights of men and children.
And now, we consult to clarify what those rights are,” the Taliban leader said.
Meanwhile, the anti-Taliban resistance movement in North Afghanistan said it was willing to negotiate with the Taliban, but also ready for long-term struggle.
A front spokesman for a national resistance led by Ahmad Massoud, son of Afghan leader and politician Ahmad Shah Massoud, has collected around 9,000 fighters at Panjshir Valley to the northeast Kabul.
Massoud told the newspaper based in London Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that his movement hoped for the conversation but “ready to survive until the last person”.
“We are ready to form an inclusive government with the Taliban through political negotiations.
But what is not acceptable is the establishment of the Afghan government characterized by extremism, which will cause serious threats not only to Afghanistan, but also to the region and overall.
The world.” The Taliban said if they failed to control Panjshir through negotiations, they would arrest him by force.