Afghanistan: "On the international scene, the Taliban regime remains very isolated"

Serge Michailof has worked in more than seventy countries on all continents and carried out around twenty missions in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2015. Former Director of Operations at the World Bank in Washington then at the French Development Agency (AFD) , he is now an associate researcher at Iris and a senior fellow at the Ferdi foundation.

LE FIGARO.- One year after the fall of Kabul, what recognition and what support has the new Taliban regime found on the international scene?

Serge MICHAILOF.-

On the international scene, the Taliban regime remains very isolated.

The recent "

" by a missile launched from an American drone of Alman Al-Zawahiri, the successor and former inspirer of Bin Laden, this on the balcony of a villa in the upscale district of Kabul, will certainly not facilitate the recognition international regime.

Didn't they promise the Americans that they would harbor no more terrorists and that al-Qaeda would no longer be welcome in Afghanistan?

They are caught in the act of lying, just like the Pakistanis when an American commando killed bin Laden in a villa near one of their military bases.

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It should also be noted that the refusal to recognize this regime testifies to greater international repugnance than during the previous takeover of the Taliban in 1996. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan had then recognized the Taliban emirate.

It is also surprising that Pakistan…

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