KABUL: Taliban called for a friendly bond with the US and indicated that they almost announced the details of the new government for hours after the last American army flew from Kabul to end 20 years of war.
“The Islamic Emirates wants good and diplomatic relations with America,” Zabihullah Mujahed, Taliban’s main spokesman, told reporters on Tuesday from Hamid Karzai International Airport, which was the last place under control.
Key Taliban leaders took the symbolic victory lap, walking across Tarmac to mark their victory.
Even when militant groups face a number of new challenges to estimate their controls.
Mujahed added later that the three-day meeting of the Group Leadership Council had occurred under the guidance of their spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, in the southern city of Kandahar, the group fortress.
“A number of decisions were taken on the protection of goods and public treasury infrastructure and good treatment of the people and provided facilities to them,” Mujahed said in text messages to reporters.
“Consultation is held on the establishment of the government and the new Islamic cabinet in the country.” The US officially ended the longest war around midnight Monday Afghanistan, a mission that began immediately after a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
Advance Swift Taliban to Kabul encouraged US withdrawal that rushed more than 123,000 people since August 14, which was drammed by a suicide bomb which killed 13 members of US services and more than 169 Afghanistan.
But apart from the happy atmosphere between the Taliban leaders, now the difficult part of the government begins.
They must place a functioning government, looking for ways to run the airport, the rod of price increases in the price of goods, preventing the economic crisis after the US cut help and avoid civil war with ethnic and local branch-based troops.
On Tuesday, Normymy seemed to return to Kabul.
Restaurants and pharmacies are reopened, with large crowds appearing on the market and traffic congestion clogging the streets in the capital.
Armed Taliban bodyguards wore our equipment patrolling a pickup truck.
While banks and ATMs have been reopened, citizens struggle to gain access to their money.
The price of essential foods and drugs has surged as much as 50% over the past few weeks, said the population of Kabul.
And flights from the country have stopped, with US withdrawal leaving air traffic control services in Kabul without crew.
Qasim Mohseni, drug retailers, call the Taliban to control the price of food and medicine even when he welcomed new leaders.
“Because the Taliban comes, security looks good so far but worries and the biggest problems for people are economics and lack of work and market prices also increase,” he said by telephone from Kabul.
“What did the US or the government attached to Afghanistan? Tell me the good thing about them.
Not.
It is a corrupt government – all the rulers and leaders are made corrupt by US money.” Fear of spreading, afraid of spreading between those who are part of them Former government even though the Taliban stated general amnesty.
A former government employee, who asked not to be identified, said he had been hiding for two weeks because militants looked for it.
He said certain Taliban militants had visited his house, and one of his colleagues was killed.
The Taliban has adopted a more moderate tone since their military victory – promises that women can work and go to school within the limits of sharia law, and amnesty for all their Afghan enemies and good relationships with their international community.
The Biden government said US relations with the group are now depending on their behavior.
For the Taliban, a lot of money at stake: The International Monetary Fund on August 19 cut the group from using reserve assets of funds just a few days before the nation would receive almost $ 500 million.
One potential source of funds is China, which on Tuesday requested the world to help the Taliban.
“China hopes that the international community must increase collaboration and provide Afghanistan with economic assistance, livelihoods and humanitarians needed to help the country achieve peace and reconstruction,” said spokesman for Chinese foreign ministry Wang Wenbin Tuesday in Beijing.
He responded to the question of whether Beijing would support the IMF which allowed the Taliban government to access assets.