{"id":118453,"date":"2021-09-22T16:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118453"},"modified":"2021-09-22T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T23:01:35","slug":"pakistan-isolated-after-bid-to-get-taliban-included-in-saarc-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/22\/pakistan-isolated-after-bid-to-get-taliban-included-in-saarc-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Isolated After Bid To Get Taliban Included In SAARC Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy NDTV<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

SAARC Foreign Ministers Meet: Sources said SAARC members could not reach a consensus on Pakistan’s request or give the Taliban a guarantee it could attend.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

New Delhi: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan found itself isolated on the global stage this week after an attempt to generate support for the Taliban – which seized power in Afghanistan last month – and allow the group a seat at Saturday’s meeting of Foreign Ministers from SAARC nations was rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also rejected was Pakistan’s demand Nepal – the SAARC chair – provide written assurances Ghulam Isaczai, who represents Afghanistan’s ousted government at the United Nations, would not be allowed to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources said SAARC members could not reach a consensus on Pakistan’s request or give the Taliban guarantees it could attend the meet scheduled to take place on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, the meeting of Foreign Ministers from eight South Asian countries was cancelled<\/a>. The SAARC nations are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A senior Indian government functionary told NDTV Pakistan insisted the Taliban attend the meeting, but no other country had agreed to this demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taliban is not recognised by India as the representative of the Afghan people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The groups is also not recognised by other countries, with senior members of its new cabinet still blacklisted by the United Nations and on ‘wanted’ lists by American agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia and China also do not, as yet, recognise the Taliban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Taliban regime has “no authority”, the Indian government functionary told NDTV and stressed the group could not, therefore, stake claim to speak on global platforms. Pakistan’s “mid-wife” role in support of the Taliban had left it exposed, the functionary declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Taliban’s Doha-based spokesperson Suhail Shaheen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taliban has also written to the UN Secretary-General asking for permission to address the 76th General Assembly<\/a> in New York this week and have nominated Doha-based spokesperson Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan’s UN ambassador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News agency Reuters reports the move sets up a showdown with Ghulam Isaczai, and it is doubtful permission will be given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN acceptance of the Taliban will be an important step in the group’s bid for international recognition, which could help unlock funds needed by the cash strapped Afghan economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last time the Taliban was in power (1996-2001), the ambassador of the toppled Afghan government remained the UN representative after decisions over the Taliban’s claims were deferred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy NDTV SAARC Foreign Ministers Meet: Sources said SAARC members could not reach a consensus on Pakistan’s request or give the Taliban a guarantee it could attend. New Delhi:  Pakistan found itself isolated on the global stage this week after an attempt to generate support for the Taliban – which seized power in Afghanistan last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}