By Andrew Mills

DOHA (Reuters) -Qatar believes that recognising the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan isn’t a precedence now, and that the main target must be on participating with the brand new administration and addressing humanitarian points, a senior Qatari official mentioned on Tuesday.

Mutlaq Al-Qahtani, particular envoy of the Qatari international minister, urged different nations to interact extra deeply with the Taliban as Afghanistan’s de facto authority, whereas urging the Islamist motion to behave as a “accountable” administration and respect the precise of girls to work and ladies to attend college.

“We expect this (recognition) isn’t a precedence. What’s extra a precedence as we converse now could be the humanitarian, is the training, is free passage of passengers,” Qahtani mentioned at a world safety discussion board in Doha.

He mentioned the one approach ahead was to supply the caretaker administration “extra collaboration, cooperation and help”.

Nearly two months after the previous Western-backed authorities collapsed and rebel forces swept into Kabul, the Taliban administration has pushed to construct relations with different nations to assist stave off a catastrophic financial disaster.

However the Taliban have thus far refused to offer floor on ladies’ training, thought of one of many restricted variety of unambiguously constructive positive factors from the West’s twenty years of involvement in Afghanistan.

Qatar, which is internet hosting talks between Taliban and Western officers wherein Mutlaq mentioned he’s taking part, is seen as one of many nations with affect over the motion.

Doha hosted the Taliban’s political workplace which oversaw the negotiations with the USA that ultimately led to the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in August. It has performed a pivotal function in evacuation efforts.