New Delhi: After a regional conference in Doha, India joined Qatar and several other countries in stating that there would be no recognition of the Afghan military takeover and called on a direct and comprehensive ceasefire.
According to Qatar, China and Pakistan are among the countries that say they will not recognize the takeover of violence in separate meetings in Doha on August 10 this week.
The bad news continued to devote from Afghanistan on Friday about the Taliban military attack with a report that the rebels approached controlling Indian exhibition infrastructure projects, Salma Dam, also called the Indian-Afghan friendship dam, in Herat Province.
The dam was inaugurated in 2016 by the President of Ashraf Ghani and PM Narendra Modi.
The capital city of the third largest province and city in Afghanistan, the city of Hatar, also fell to the Taliban, a report from Afghanistan.
Efforts to arrive at political settlements in Doha continued regardless of the visible Taliban cruelty.
Qatar held a meeting on August 10 with the US, China, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, England, UN, and EU in Doha and followed up with another meeting separately on August 12 with representatives of India, Germany, Turkey, and Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
According to Qatar, all participants in the two meetings urged the Afghan government and the Taliban to take steps to build trust and accelerate efforts to achieve political settlement and a comprehensive ceasefire as soon as possible.
“Participants reaffirm that they will not recognize the government in Afghanistan imposed through the use of military forces,” Qatar Foreign Ministry said.
It also contradicts reports that China wants to recognize the Taliban after taking over Kabul.
They also recorded a statement by both parties on the “guiding principles” for political settlement which included commitment not to allow any individual or group to use the land of Afghanistan “to threaten the security of other countries”.
It has become one of the main Indian worries when Taliban rebels threaten to take over the country force.
Other guidance principles include inclusive governance, respect for human rights, including women’s rights and minorities, mechanisms to provide representative governance and respect international law, including international humanitarian law.
The participants also raised the “great concern” about reports from all Afghanistans about a large number of civilian casualties and extra-judicial murders, also “widespread accusations and credible from human rights violations, all attacks (land and air) against the capital and cities Province, and the destruction of physical infrastructure that perpetuate conflicts and make reconciliation efforts is more difficult “.
Will not recognize the Afghan government imposed by force: India, others in Doha meet
