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2024-09-10 Britain
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UK to shut down Afghan embassy after Taliban warnings
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[NEWARAB] The UK has ordered Afghanistan's embassy in London to be closed by September 27, the Afghan ambassador has confirmed.
In a post on social media platform X, Zalmai Rassoul
... former foreign minister and a very close confidant of Hamid Karzai. Before serving as foreign minister Rassoul also spent seven years laboring as a national security adviser to the president. An ethnic Pashtun born in Kabul, Rassoul was the valedictorian of his class at the illustrious Franco-American school in Kabul, Lycee Istiqal. He has an MD from the Paris Medical School in France.....
announced that the decision was made by British authorities, amid ongoing disputes over the control of Afghan embassies in Western countries.
Currently, dozens of embassies continue to operate, run by diplomats affiliated with the former US-backed Afghan government of deposed President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, then former president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
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"We thank and appreciate all colleagues, citizens, and related institutions who have sincerely cooperated with the Afghan Embassy in London during this period," Rassoul said in a statement.
In July, Afghanistan's unrecognised Taliban
 ...the once and current oppressors of Afghanistan...
government sent letters to 13 nations, including European countries, Canada, and Australia, asserting that consular services provided by embassies managed by diplomats from the former Afghan government were invalid without Taliban involvement.
In response, countries such as the United States and now the UK have shut down Afghan diplomatic missions.
According to Afghan independent news network Amu TV, Germany had urged the Afghan embassy in Berlin to engage with the Taliban, becoming the only country to formally respond to the Taliban's letters.
On Saturday, a protest outside Germany's Foreign Ministry saw Afghan citizens opposing any diplomatic engagement with the Taliban, drawing attention to the movement's human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
record. 
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