KABUL: The Afghan Taliban authorities said on Saturday they would continue the issuance of passports in Kabul, giving hope to residents who felt threatened with living under the Islamic government.
Thousands of Afghans have submitted a new travel document to escape from a developing economy and the humanitarian crisis described by the United Nations as “starving avalanches”.
The authorities will begin to issue documents from Sunday at the Kabul Passport Office, Alam Gul Haqqani, head of the passport department in the Interior Ministry, told reporters.
The Taliban stopped publishing a passport shortly after August 15th they returned to power, because tens of thousands of people rushed to the only airport kabul in an effort to capture any international flights that could evacuate them.
In October, the authorities reopened the passport office in Kabul only to suspend a working day later because the application of the application caused broken biometric equipment.
“All technical problems have now been resolved,” said Haqqani, adding that initially travel documents will be given to those who have registered before the office is suspended working.
The new application will be received from January 10, he said.
Many Afghans who want to visit Pakistani neighbors for medical treatment have also been blocked for months in the absence of applicable passports.
“My mother has some health problems and we need to go to Pakistan for a long time, but we can’t because the passport department is closed,” Jamshid said, which is like many Afghans with just one name.
“We are happy now …
we can get our passport and go to Pakistan,” he said as much as being collected outside the passport office immediately after Saturday’s announcement.
Removing a passport – and allows people who are eligible to go in the midst of a developing humanitarian crisis – seen as the Taliban commitment test to the international community.
The Taliban urged a donor to recover billions of dollars in suspended assistance when the previous Western-supported regime exploded in the final stage of US military withdrawal.
Aid cuts that suddenly have fiscal shocks that are “unprecedented” for the economy that has been obsolete by drought and decades of war, according to the UN Development Program.
The crisis has forced many people in the capital to sell household items to buy food for their families.
On Saturday, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Taliban Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai urged the UN assistance agency to put pressure on the release of assets worth nearly $ 10 billion held in the United States.
Stanekzai also urged all Afghan refugees who lived abroad to return now that the war had ended.
“We invite and encourage everyone to return to Afghanistan, even our political opponents,” he said at a function held in Kabul to mark international migrant days.
“I asked the United States to support us in giving our people a good life in Afghanistan rather than taking it.” Over the past four decades, more than six million Afghans have left the country to avoid war and the economic crisis, most of them live in Iran and Pakistan.
The international community has so far not recognized the current Taliban government which was formed immediately after the withdrawal of foreign troops led by us.
International flights, especially for Dubai and Abu Dhabi, while slowly returned at Kabul Airport after the facility was thrown in August when the crowd rushed to flee.