Afghan women and children person breadstuff donations successful Kabul's Old City, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Afghan women and children person breadstuff donations successful Kabul's Old City, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The Latest connected Afghanistan:

BERLIN — Germany’s president has bestowed 1 of the country’s highest awards to the commandant who led the evacuation of Germans and immoderate Afghans from Kabul.

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier praised Brig. Gen. Jens Arlt’s enactment of an cognition that helium said was “unprecedented” successful Germany’s post-World War II history.

The German subject evacuated much than 5,300 citizens of 45 countries from the Afghan capital, portion of a wider planetary effort to airlift 120,000 radical aft the Taliban takeover past month.

Steinmeier noted that Arlt had managed to bring location each of his 500 troops unharmed, contempt the risks they faced connected the ground. He added that “we carnivore immoderate of the work for quality tragedy” successful Afghanistan.

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ISLAMABAD --- Pakistan’s premier curate has met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi connected Afghanistan.

The Foreign Ministry's connection connected Friday said the 2 leaders met connected the sideline of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's gathering successful Tajikistan’s metropolis of Dushanbe. The treatment centered connected Afghanistan and different bilateral issues, with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan underscoring his country's captious involvement successful a peaceful, unchangeable and prosperous Afghanistan.

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Khan is visiting Tajikistan to enactment successful the gathering of members of the China and Russia-dominated organization. Afghanistan's aboriginal has dominated the summit.

The Taliban seized power of Afghanistan past month. So acold Pakistan, similar different countries, has not recognized the caller government. Pakistan says immoderate specified determination volition beryllium announced aft consultation with the satellite community.

According to the statement, Khan said it was indispensable to instrumentality urgent steps to stabilize Afghanistan's security, humanitarian and economical situation.

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