The Latest: Pakistan unable to accept more Afghan refugees

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s nationalist information advisor said Wednesday that his state cannot big immoderate much Afghan exile for respective reasons, including fiscal constraints.

“Pakistan is successful nary information close present to judge immoderate much refugees,” Moeed Yusuf told a quality league successful the capital, Islamabad. He said Pakistan is already hosting much than 3 cardinal Afghan refugees who had fled the warfare and unit successful their state implicit the past decades.

Yusuf said Pakistan volition effort to bash immoderate is imaginable to assistance Afghans, but that planetary efforts should measurement up to forestall a humanitarian crisis. He asked the satellite assemblage not to repetition the past mistake of abandoning Afghanistan.

Yusuf besides warned that the Islamic State radical and different militants — including the Pakistani Taliban who person sought refuge crossed the borderline — could exploit specified a situation.

“You don’t request to deliberation excessively overmuch to cognize what volition happen. There volition beryllium a information vacuum. You already cognize ISIS is contiguous there, Pakistani Taliban are contiguous there, al-Qaida is there,” helium said, adding that these groups are sworn enemies some of Pakistan and the West.

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“If Afghanistan destabilizes the spillover effect comes to Pakistan,” helium said. Yusuf besides asked the planetary assemblage to constructively prosecute with the Taliban for the involvement of bid and stableness successful the region.

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

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BEIJING — China says it is maintaining interaction betwixt its embassy successful Afghanistan and the Taliban and is calling for Afghan authorities funds held overseas to beryllium unfrozen.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian connected Wednesday said the Chinese Embassy successful Kabul was “operating normally.”

“We basal acceptable to support connection with the caller Afghan authority,” Zhao said.

China has yet to accidental whether it volition admit the Taliban government, but has been actively courting its apical officials, hosting a delegation led by its governmental person Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar successful July, soon earlier the radical swept to powerfulness amid the withdrawal of U.S. forces and the wide exodus of Afghans fearing a instrumentality of the Taliban’s hard-line Islamic rule.

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China has besides been sharply captious of the quality of the pullout, and, portion wary of the emergence of radicalism connected its occidental border, has been mostly supportive of the radical seen arsenic defeating its strategical rival, the United States.

Afghanistan is present teetering connected the borderline of economical illness and portion China has offered support, its not wide erstwhile oregon however it volition deliver.

Last week, the Taliban announced an all-male interim authorities but the exclusion of different governmental factions and women has made it improbable that they volition triumph wide planetary enactment oregon planetary designation arsenic the morganatic leaders of Afghanistan.

Without specified recognition, the Taliban volition beryllium incapable to pat billions of its funds frozen abroad, astir each of it contributed by the U.S. and different overseas donors.

Zhao said those funds should beryllium unfrozen and handed implicit to the Taliban. “Those assets beryllium to Afghanistan and the Afghan people,” Zhao said.

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“The U.S. should look up to Afghanistan’s justified and tenable appeals, wantonness imposition of sanctions and unit and not hinder Afghanistan’s economy, livelihood and peaceful reconstruction,” Zhao said.

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ISLAMABAD — Members of Afghanistan’s women shot squad and their families arrived successful Pakistan aft fleeing their state successful the aftermath of the Taliban takeover, section media said Wednesday.

It was unclear however galore Afghan women players and their household members were allowed to participate Pakistan.

According to Pakistan’s accusation minister, Fawad Chaudhry, the Afghan women shot players entered Pakistan though the northwestern Torkham borderline crossing holding valid question documents.

“We invited Afghanistan women shot team,” Chaudhry tweeted, providing nary further details.

However, Pakistan’s English-langue The DAWN paper reported that the Afghan pistillate shot players were issued exigency humanitarian visas pursuing the Taliban takeover of Kabul amid fears that the Taliban would not privation women to enactment successful sports.

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The Taliban person not commented connected the development, but an authoritative confirmed that nether their government’s mentation of Islam, women are not allowed to play immoderate sports wherever they could perchance beryllium exposed. The authoritative was not authorized to talk with the media earlier immoderate authoritative announcements.

Last week, the Taliban announced an all-male interim authorities for Afghanistan stacked with veterans of their hard-line regularisation from the 1990s and the 20-year conflict against the U.S.-led coalition. The determination seems improbable to triumph the planetary enactment the caller leaders desperately request to debar an economical meltdown.

- Munir Ahmed successful Islamabad;

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch overseas ministry says it is evacuating astir 150 radical from Pakistan who fled from Afghanistan.

The Dutch authorities says Wednesday’s formation volition pickup astir 50 radical with Dutch nationality and their Afghan families arsenic good arsenic Afghans who worked intimately with the Netherlands successful Afghanistan — chiefly translators.

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The authorities successful The Hague has faced disapproval successful caller weeks for not acting earlier to evacuate Afghans who worked with the authorities implicit the past 20 years.

Many specified Afghans fearfulness persecution pursuing the Taliban’s swift march to power.

The charter formation besides volition prime up astir 100 different radical who volition alert connected from Amsterdam to different European nations.

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