Taliban Government Will Decide on Kabul Airport Charter Flights, Germany Says

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August 31st, 8:05am

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Person second from left is a former bodyguard for Ghani. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi)

Germany will wait for the Taliban to install a new government to see if the militants will honor their pledge to allow civilians to leave Afghanistan on flights from Kabul airport, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Tuesday. "The Taliban have promised, but in the coming days and weeks we will find out whether we can count on that," Maas said during a news conference in Islamabad with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi. "The Taliban want to install a new government, and this will give us an indication whether our request that it be inclusive is met," he added.

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