The Latest: Japan to relocate its Kabul embassy to Qatar

TOKYO — Japan’s apical diplomat says his state has temporarily moved its embassy from Afghanistan to Turkey but present plans to relocate it to Qatar, wherever the Taliban person an office. The Gulf Arab state is besides expected to play an important governmental relation successful what comes adjacent for Afghanistan.

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi earlier this period visited the Middle East. He told reporters connected Tuesday that his talks with leaders successful the portion suggest that Doha, the superior of Qatar, volition transportation increasing governmental importance.

“I judge assorted forms of connection volition instrumentality place,” Motegi said.

Japanese nationals astatine the embassy successful Kabul were among the archetypal to beryllium evacuated from Afghanistan. Most of them were airlifted by the British subject earlier Tokyo dispatched its Self-Defense Force craft past week arsenic the information extracurricular the Kabul airdrome worsened.

Last Thursday and Friday, Japan evacuated lone 1 Japanese citizen, on with 14 Afghan radical astatine the petition of U.S. military, to Pakistan.

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Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said that harmless evacuations of the remainder of Japanese nationals and Afghans who worked for the Japanese Embassy and assistance enactment stay a apical priority.

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— Qatar emerges arsenic cardinal player successful Afghanistan aft US pullout

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— Find much AP sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/afghanistan

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

KABUL, Afghanistan — Even arsenic the U.S. and its NATO allies near Afghanistan, immoderate of the gains of the past 20 years were connected show arsenic boys and girls rushed to schoolhouse aboriginal connected Tuesday.

Masooda was hurrying to get to her 5th people people astatine a backstage school. “I’m not acrophobic of the Taliban,” she said. “Why should I be?”

Students had been called backmost to schoolhouse 4 days ago. The Taliban person said students volition beryllium segregated by sex, but successful galore schools that was already the practice, but for the aboriginal grades.

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TOKYO -- Afghan jock Hossain Rasouli yet got his accidental connected Tuesday to enactment successful the Paralympics.

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Rasouli and teammate Zakia Khudadadi got to Tokyo connected Saturday aft being evacuated from Kabul. They arrived a week late, and since past the two-person squad person been sequestered successful the Paralympic Village for privateness and information reasons.

They person besides declined to talk to the media, earlier oregon aft events.

Rasouli is chiefly a sprinter but arrived excessively precocious for his event. So helium tried the agelong leap successful the T47 class, his lone lawsuit astatine these Games, and finished past successful the 13-man competition.

Khudadadi is acceptable to go the archetypal pistillate Afghan jock to vie successful the Paralympics since 2004. She volition situation successful the women’s 44-49-kilogram value class successful taekwondo connected Thursday.

The Afghan athletes were met successful Tokyo astatine the Paralympic Village connected the play by IPC president Andrew Parsons.

Their accomplishment came little than 2 weeks aft the IPC was informed the Afghan squad could not question to Tokyo, a move, Parsons said, “that broke the hearts of each progressive successful the Paralympic question and near some athletes devastated.”

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Parsons said that announcement started a “major planetary cognition that led to their harmless evacuation from Afghanistan” and accomplishment successful Japan via France.

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