EFSAS comments on the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan post Taliban
September 20, 2021
While a basic minimum level of engagement with the Taliban may be required to ensure unhindered access to humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan, what Pakistan has been suggesting is much broader in scope. From Prime Minister Imran Khan to Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf, everybody in Pakistan has gone around this past week imploring the world to first cuddle up to the Taliban and then use the resulting warmth and influence to entice the Taliban to change its medieval ways and begin treating its citizens, especially women, as human beings.
