DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The leader of the United Arab Emirates fulfilled Tuesday with an authorities in the Taliban federalgovernment still desired by the United States on an up-to $10 million bounty over his participation in an attack that eliminated an American resident and other attacks.
The conference highlights the growing divide worldwide on how to offer with the Taliban, who took control of Afghanistan in 2021 and because haveactually disallowed ladies from goingto school beyond the 6th grade and otherwise limited females’s function in public life. While the West still doesn’t acknowledge the Taliban as Kabul’s federalgovernment, countries in the Mideast and somewhereelse have reached out to them.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi, fulfilled Sirajuddin Haqqani at the Qasr Al Shati palace in the Emirati capital, the state-run WAM news company reported. It released an image of Sheikh Mohammed shaking hands with Haqqani, the Taliban’s interior minister who likewise heads the Haqqani network, a effective network within the group blamed for some of the bloodiest attacks versus Afghanistan’s previous Western-backed federalgovernment.
“The 2 sides goneover enhancing the bonds of cooperation inbetween the 2 nations and methods to improve ties to serve shared interests and contribute to local stability,” WAM stated. “The conversations focused on financial and advancement fields, as well as assistance for restoration and advancement in Afghanistan.”
For their part, the Taliban explained the 2 males as talkingabout “mutual interests,” without elaborating. It included that the Taliban’s spy chief, Abdul Haq Wasiq, likewise took part in the conference. Wasiq hadactually been held for years at the U.S. military’s jail at Guantanamo Bay and launched in 2014 in a swap that saw the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who hadactually been recorded after leaving his post in2009
Haqqani, thought to be in his 50s, has continued to be on the U.S. radar even after the Taliban takeover. In 2022, a U.S. drone strike in Kabul eliminated al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, who had called for striking the United States for years after taking over from Osama bin Laden. The home in which al-Zawahri was eliminated was a home for Haqqani, according to U.S. authorities.
While the Taliban argued the strike broke the terms of the 2020 Doha Agreement that put in movement the U.S. wi