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With the Taliban regime completing four months in power in Afghanistan next week, its leadership has conveyed to the US government that it would be ready with a roadmap for an inclusive government by the end of March 2022, News18.com has learnt.

Sources told News18 that Taliban leadership in the last meeting with the US State Departments Special Representative Thomas West has conveyed that that they need four months to conclude consultations with their top leadership to shape a roadmap for an inclusive government in the war-torn country.

Though sources added that this is just way of buying more time and it is to be seen if Taliban stood by its words. It is noteworthy that many countries, including India, have been of the view that an inclusive government should be formed in Afghanistan that represents the will of all the people of Afghanistan and has representation from all sections of their society, including major ethno-political forces in the country.

Turkey is providing space to the Resistance for talks

The Resistance leaders are regularly meeting in Turkey to chalk out a strategy to build pressure on the Taliban regime to form an inclusive government, and ensure human rights of the women, children and minority communities are upheld, sources said, adding that Salahuddin Rabbani, Ustad Sayyaf, former vice-President Sarwar Danish, Ustad Khalili, Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai, former vice-president Karim Khalili, former interior minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar, former Head of NDS Rahmatullah Nabil are in regular touch and are holding meetings in Turkey.

It may be small or big, but resistance is there from within and outside the country and soon Amrullah Saleh and Ahmed Masood may also travel to Turkey to hold talks with other resistance leaders, the sources said.

The motive is to put pressure on Taliban to form inclusive government through diplomatic means, developing international pressure and pressure within the country, they added.

Whats interesting to note is that though countries like Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan do not provide space for such consultations, Turkey is providing it, along with Iran.

Modalities being worked out for Indias humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan

Sources told News18 that India and Pakistan are engaged in working out the modalities for transporting 50 thousand MT Wheat and medicines to Afghanistan through the Wagah-Attari Border. The Afghan Trucks are allowed till Wagah and trade between India and Afghanistan is going on, they said, but added that these trucks are going back empty.

They also informed that Afghanistan diplomats have suggested that the trucks going empty could be put use to send assistance back to Afghanistan, but there is no agreement as of yet.

Meanwhile, sources in Afghanistan have suggested that Indian Government should also appoint a Special Representative for Afghanistan for having direct talks with Taliban leadership, like countries such as the US, China, Pakistan, Iran and Russia have done.

2,500 Afghan Students stuck in Afghanistan

With the fall of Afghanistan, over 2,500 Afgan students, who were studying in different educational institutions in India, remain stranded in the war-torn country. They are students of Delhi University, JNU, Jamia Islamia and other institutes and cannot travel to India as there are no direct flights, and their Indian visas revoked after the fall of Kabul. Afghanistan Envoy to India, Farid Mamundzay told News18, Its important to bring these 2,500 students to India to resume their studies and hopefully contribute the rebuilding of Afghanistan in the future.

Even with the Taliban taking over the country, the whole of Afghanistan is not Taliban, he added.

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Dominic Raab grilled on by Dan Walker on his Afghanistan role

US President Joe Biden received massive criticism as his country led the Wests chaotic withdrawal of Afghanistan in August. On August 15 the Taliban seized the capital city of Kabul to the surprise of the US government, and the US embassy evacuated and retreated to Hamid Karzai International Airport. What followed was a frenzied evacuation process that has been likened in some quarters to when the last Americans were airlifted out of Saigon, which marked a bloody end to the Vietnam War.

Yet before the US involvement in Afghanistan, the former Soviet Union occupied the country.

The Soviet Union marched into Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, 1979, claiming it had been invited by the new Afghan communist leader, Babrak Karmal.

What followed was a guerilla war between an insurgent group funded by the West, known collectively as the Mujahideen, against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

The Soviets struggled in the harsh cold Afghan terrain, and by 1987 announced it would be withdrawing from the region and leaving the Afghan government alone to fight against the insurgents.

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Professor Grover, who is an expert political expert, claimed that the US ridiculed the Soviet Union throughout the Eighties for their involvement in the region before entering Afghanistan themselves in 2001.

He told Express.co.uk: A conversation were not having in this country is what it means to be a declining empire.

Setting aside the way that we withdrew from Afghanistan, it was a 20-year fiasco.

I remember very distinctly Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party just ridiculing the Soviets for being in Afghanistan.

[They said] what a foolish thing that was, and how that was a decline of the Soviet sphere of influence, which it was.

Were in the middle of the same kind of thing now but you cant have that kind of conversation in America.

The whole American exceptionalism myth is still really really powerful.

The war lasted nine years and has been cited as the Soviet Unions Vietnam War, and a contributing factor to its dissolution by a range of scholars.

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The international community imposed numerous sanctions and embargoes against the Soviet Union upon their invasion.

The US even boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Of course, after the Soviets left in humiliation, the US was the next great power to wade in the region following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The US invaded to oust the Taliban regime, which had harboured al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden but remained in the region for two decades before Augusts evacuation.

Meanwhile, in the UK the Foreign Offices handling of the Afghan evacuation was dysfunctional and chaotic, according to a whistleblower.

In written evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee, Raphael Marshall claimed the process of choosing who could get a flight out was arbitrary and that thousands of emails pleading for help went unread.

Mr Marshall added that the then Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was slow to make decisions.

The UK airlifted 15,000 people out of Afghanistan, including 5000 British nationals, 8000 Afghans and 2000 children, after the Taliban took control of Kabul.

Mr Marshall claimed that up to 150,000 Afghans who were at risk because of their links to the UK, applied to be evacuated but less than five percent received any assistance.

In response, Mr Raab said the two-week evacuation was the biggest operation in living memory and that the UK helped a larger number of people than any other nation except the US.

He added that the criticism of his decision making was from a relatively junior desk officer and that the main challenges were in verifying the identities of applicants on the ground and safely escorting to Kabul airport, not in decision making in Whitehall.

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Afghan conductor Shogufa Safi has been named as one of the BBCs 100 women of 2021.She is the conductor of Zohra, Afghanistans first all-female orchestra, made up of 13 to 20-year-olds, many of whom are orphans or come from poverty. Zohra was previously based at the celebrated Afghanistan National Institute of Music, but all its musicians have recently been forced to flee the country with many leaving behind instruments. The school was closed down after the Taliban regained power earlier this year. Along with her colleagues, Safi escaped to Doha in Qatar.

Hope never fails, says Shogufa Safi. Even in the total darkness, I believe my baton will be a beacon of hope and light for Afghanistan.

The Zohra ensemble is named after a Persian goddess of music and were formed in 2016, with musicians from the Afghanistan National Institute of Musicians.

The orchestra plays a mix of Afghan and western classical music, and have played on many international stages. In 2017, the ensemble played world leaders out at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. The musicians came to the UK for the first time in 2019 to play with the London-based Orchestra of St Johns at the British Library and University of Oxford, bringing with them the instruments of their homeland.

Since being forced to flee Afghanistan earlier this year, the exiled Zohra musicians have reunited in Doha, performing to a live audience with their colleagues from the Afghanistan National Institute of Musicians.

Conductor of the Afghan National Orchestra Mohammed Qambar Nawshad leads musicians of the Afghanistan National Institute of Musicians (ANIM) and the Zohra Orchestra in a concert in the Qatari capital Doha on October 18, 2021

The Afghanistan National Institute of Music was founded in 2008 with international support, designed to bring music education to young Afghans. Under the Taliban regime, music had been under threat and ANIM had been a target, particularly due to its efforts to promote the education of girls. It was a trailblazing institution, providing music education to boys and girls in the same classrooms, which was a rarity in Afghanistan following the years of Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001. Both Afghan and western classical music was studied.

When the Taliban regained control in August 2021, the school fell silent and students made the journey from Kabul to Doha to escape the regime. The students are all fearful and concerned. They clearly understand that if they return to the school, they might face consequences or be punished for what theyve been doing, the schools founder and director, Dr Ahmad Sarmast, told the BBC in August.

The Afghanistan National Institute of Music was home to Zohra, which Shogufa Safi conducted.

The extent of a potential Taliban-enforced music ban has not been made clear, but Kabul residents are worried the country will revert to its 1996 status when the majority of playing and listening to music was outlawed.

The ANIM has been updating its supporters and donors on the airlifts of students, faculty, staff and family members to Qatar. The hope is for the school to be rebuilt in Portugal. The Zohra Orchestra has now also been evacuated to Doha.

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Django Burgess plays at a previous Human Rights Day concert at Danbury.

DANBURY Multiple service organizations from Stokes Early College are bonding together to host a fundraiser to assist the victims of the disastrous U.S. exit from Afghanistan and the medical and hunger crises as a result.

The fundraiser, Human Rights Day Concert to Benefit Doctors Without Borders Medical Relief Program, will be an evening of entertainment starting at 6 p.m. this Friday at The Arts Place. Proceeds from the fundraiser will be donated to the Doctors Without Borders medical relief mission for the children and mothers of Afghanistan.

Performers from Stokes County will be singing and playing instruments for your entertainment. Those who have committed thus far are John Hartman and Kay Richey, Aili Harris, Jacob Harbour, Tim Sands, Django Burgess, Gus McGee, Karli Fowlkes and several other students and community members.

Many of the performers have been with us across the years some from the very first performance better than ten years ago at the Danbury Community Church.

This event is made possible by these professional musicians willingness to volunteer their time and efforts for a cause such as this; in the past, we have raised money for Doctors Without Borders campaigns in Syria, Bangladesh, Eastern Europe, Central Africa and Central America. This years focus on Afghanistan is a critical need because of the dire situation there after the rapid withdrawal of U.S. support.

Students from several different service organizations from Stokes Early College High School including the Amnesty International Club and Girl Up are sponsoring this event. Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people who take injustice personally and campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. It is independent of any political ideology, economic interest or religion. Amnesty International lobbies governments, and other powerful groups such as companies making sure they keep their promises and respect international law and mobilize millions of supporters around the world to campaign for change and to stand in defense of activists on the frontline.

Girl Up is a global movement to advance girls skills, rights, and opportunities to be leaders. Girl Up programming intentionally focuses on equity for girls and women who face systemic discrimination and bias in both public and private spheres worldwide. Its leadership development programs have impacted 95,000 girls through 5,000 Clubs in nearly 130 countries and all 50 states.

Young leaders are the heart of our movement working to advance gender equity, close the gender gap in leadership worldwide, and mobilize their communities to create social change and accelerate opportunities for girls globally.

Human Rights Day is observed every year on Dec. 10. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Human rights are basic rights and freedoms that all people are entitled to regardless of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, language, or other status. Human rights include civil and political rights, such as the right to life, liberty and freedom of expression; and social, cultural and economic rights including the right to participate in culture, the right to food, and the right to work and receive an education. Human rights are protected and upheld by international and national laws and treaties.

The healthcare system in Afghanistan is at risk of collapsing across the whole country, including in Herat. Access to care was a major issue in Afghanistan well before the Taliban takeover, but today the situation has further degraded, as most international aid has been suspended, including the World Bank funding of the World Health Organizations basic and essential care programs covering Herats province. Health facilities in the area are either closing or reduced to providing minimum services with whatever residual resources are available. We have no idea what is going to happen to these facilities. People are jobless and poor, they cannot afford private care, some of the humanitarian organizations previously working in the area are yet to resume their activities in full.

In a nutshell, needs are everywhere and the system is failing. The Doctors Without Borders programs provide medical relief and assistance to those enduring the crises.

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