Islamabad: Pakistan warns Sunday “big consequences” for the international community if the Afghan economic destruction continues, urging world leaders to find ways to engage with the country’s Taliban leaders to help prevent humanitarian disasters.
Speaking at the opening of a special meeting of members of the members of the 57-member of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Islamabad, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the Fallout of the deepening crisis could mean hunger of mass, flooding extremism and extremism increases.
“We cannot ignore the dangers of complete economic destruction,” he told the meeting, which also included the Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in addition to delegates from the United States, China, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations.
His meeting was the biggest big conference in Afghanistan since the US-backed government fell in August and the Taliban returned to power.
Since then, billions of dollars in assistance and assets have been frozen by the international community, and the 38 million countries are now facing a bitter winter.
The United Nations has repeatedly warned that Afghanistan is on the worst humanitarian emergency threshold in the world with joint food, fuel and cash crisis.
Qureshi said Oki was asked to consider the plan of six points to help Afghanistan that would be involved with the Taliban authorities to help reduce pressure on their country.
This will include coordination assistance, increasing investment, help rebuild Afghan institutions and provide technical experts to manage the economy.
Each promise of aid will be announced Sunday night.
No nation that officially acknowledged the Taliban government and diplomats faced a subtle task to channel assistance to the Afghan economy which was hit by also supporting the hardline Islamists.
Almost all opening speakers mention the need for Taliban to protect minority rights and enable women and women rights to work and be educated.
Even though the Taliban has promised a lighter version of the hardline rules that characterize their first tasks from 1996 to 2001, women are mostly excluded from government and secondary school work for girls mostly remain closed.
The OIC meeting was not expected to provide a new Taliban government, formal international recognition was very desire.
Previously, Qureshi said there was a difference between “recognition and involvement” with the New Order in Kabul.
“Let’s push them through persuasion, through incentives, to move towards the right direction,” he told reporters ahead of the meeting.
“The policy of coercion and intimidation is unsuccessful.
If successful, we will not be in this situation.” Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the only one of the three countries to recognize the previous Taliban government.
The meeting is being held under strict security, with Islamabad on locking, fenced with barbed wire barriers and container barriers where the police and soldiers guard.