A 'Marshall Plan' for Afghanistan

[jupiter2007]

I think the Taliban are like the North Korea govt: Would want to cooperate with other countries but would not compromise a lot on their core issues.

Taliban should avoid doing trade in Dollars and should focus on local currency.
Pakistan and Afghanistan has a great trade potential. Our trade should be in Rupees and China should do it Chinese currency.

 

[Meengla]

But later when they were in vogue why they didn't raise a voice for SA women??
They will keep silent as long as SA keeps supporting them in respect to Israel and other nefarious agendas in the middle east.
US policy makers, politicians are filthy , stinky from head to toe.

Off-topic: I brought Saudi Arabia as a model for social freedoms only as a face-saving option for the West to recognize the Taliban rule. But Saudi Arabia does not enjoy a positive image in America. Forget private citizens, even officials have been voicing concerns about the Saudis for decades. Americans have not forgotten the Saudi led arms embargo in 1973. But Saudi Arabia is too important country for America to be in enemy camp. Saudi Arabia is the center of the Islamic world. An unstable Saudi Arabia could have huge repercussions for a large region. Besides, look at the money the Saudis spent on buying weapons they can't use--unless against ragtag rebels in Yemen. Trump was triumphant when he literally crossed swords with the Saudis on his visit to KSA when he sold, I think, $100 billion in weapons.

Afghanistan does not offer anyone, anything in comparison. Even claims of those fabled lithium reserves and copper whatever are of dubious nature. What Afghanistan does offer is a young workforce which can be trained. Afghanistan also offer options to connect many countries who have huge natural resources and relatively small populations--unlike what the resource starved, over-populated South Asian (and most of Southeast Asian) countries offer. That's where Pakistan has the advantage and that's what this thread is about. So please let's stay focused.

 

[ghazi52]

It is the beginning..

Plan in place..............

Qatar's foreign minister held talks with the prime minister of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan on Sunday, in the highest-level foreign visit to Kabul since the group seized the capital last month.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani called upon the country's new rulers to "involve all Afghan parties in national reconciliation" when he met Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hasan Akhund, Qatar's foreign ministry said.

Qatar is considered one of the countries with the most influence over the Taliban and played a pivotal role in the massive US-led airlift of its own citizens, other Western nationals and Afghans who helped Western countries.

The Qatari capital Doha also hosted the Taliban's political office, which oversaw the negotiations with the United States that eventually led to the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.

Sheikh Mohammed and new premier Akhund also discussed "concerted efforts to combat terrorist organizations that threaten the stability of Afghanistan", ways to enhance peace in the country and the safe passage of people, according to the Qatar ministry.

Sheikh Mohammed met the prime minister and a number of other senior ministers, a Taliban spokesman said.

"The meeting focused on bilateral relations, humanitarian assistance, economic development and interaction with the world," according to the Taliban.

Sunday's meeting in the presidential palace was attended by a number of other Afghan ministers including Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi, Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, Defence Minister Yaqoob Mujahid, Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and intelligence chief Abdul Haq Wasiq.

The Taliban said the leadership of the Islamic Emirate, the term used by the group to describe the new order in Afghanistan, thanked the Qatar government for supporting the Afghan people.

The Doha agreement, signed by the United States and the Taliban, was a "landmark achievement, all sides should adhere to its implementation", the Taliban added.

Qatar's Sheikh Mohammed also met Abdullah Abdullah, a senior official in the previous Afghan government, and former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the foreign ministry said.