Qatar announced the partial reopening of Kabul airport for the arrival of humanitarian flights

The Ambassador of Qatar in Afghanistan, Saïd Mubarak al Jayarin, announced this Saturday that the Qatari technical working group which worked on the reopening of the Kabul airport succeeded in partially reopening the airfield for the arrival of humanitarian aid flights, which have already started to arrive.

He also explained to the Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera What these humanitarian flights should continue in the coming days, as they continue to work to resolve some technical issues that will “may soon operate international commercial flights”.

On the other hand, the Ambassador of Qatar said that this Saturday the first domestic flights have left since the Taliban came to power. More specifically, they landed at Mazar i Sarif and Kandahar airports.

The work team has reached repair the radar, communications tower and runway at Kabul airport and also succeeded in guaranteeing safety both inside and outside the facilities, specified Al Jayarin.

This morning, the fifth Qatari humanitarian aid plane arrived in Kabul, with 15 tonnes of aid.

Qatar became the main negotiator with the Taliban last week, which has had a political office in the country for eight years. The Persian Gulf country is in talks on the safe opening of Hamid Karzai International Airport.

Taliban attacked new women’s march in Kabul with gas and gunfire

A group of Afghan women and activists once again took to the streets of the country’s capital, Kabul, to demand their inclusion in the future Taliban government and respect for their rights, although this time there were incidents with the insurgent group, which they claim to have blocked their way.

The protest took place after they had already registered demonstrations in the city of Herat and in Kabul on the same subject, while the insurgents continue to outline their executive, of which they have however already advanced, that There “might” not be women in priority positions.

On this occasion, the event ended with clashes after Taliban blocked women’s entourage from advancing and sprayed them with tear gasaccording to afghan tv channel Tolo News.

Women and activists insisted that their role in the new government should be important. The Taliban have promised that women will not lose their rights, or at least regress to the uselessness they had in 2001, during the previous stage of the so-called Islamic Emirate.. However, they have made it clear that “Sharia” or Islamic law will be the red line that they will take into account.

The international community, led by the United Nations, has called for the rights of all genders to be respected equally. The Executive Director of UN Women, Pramila Patten, warned this week that the incorporation of women into the future administration will be a “litmus test” verify the real commitment of the Taliban in favor of rights and freedoms.

United States warned women and girls evacuated from Afghanistan were forced to marry before fleeing

US authorities responsible for registering Afghan refugees arriving in the country have warned that cases of forced marriages have occurred affecting the women and girls who were evacuated from Afghanistan.

According to sources familiar with the matter, this type of incident – the extent of which is still unknown – occurred before the fear of remaining in the country under the control of the Taliban. As reported by the television network CNN, the authorities would have noticed these marriages once the Afghan women were in transit.

Thus, the first to sound the alarm bells were the American diplomats in the United Arab Emirates. The documents they sent indicate that some of the women and girls held in evacuation centers around the country reported that their families forced them to marry outside Kabul airport so that he could flee the country once the Taliban seized the Afghan capital.

In some cases, families paid thousands of dollars to men who could be evacuated for collaborating with American troops during the invasion.

(With information from Europa Press)

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