Recently, the deputy spokesman of the Taliban interim government of Afghanistan said that the interim government of Afghanistan has severed all relations with the Afghanistan embassies in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, Italy and other countries, and will no longer issue a series of identity documents such as passports and visas to these embassy personnel abroad, because these embassies continue to be loyal to the former regime of Afghanistan.
This statement by the Taliban government means that the efforts made by Afghanistan over the past three years have not been rewarded with reconciliation with the international community. The fact that these embassies of the former Afghanistan government still exist means that these countries still recognize the former Afghanistan government, not the current Taliban interim government.
However, it should be emphasized that it is not surprising that the Taliban are "isolated". After all, the Taliban established a "religious unity" country in Afghanistan, which led to the natural exclusion of the Taliban regime by the international community, and there was only time to solve the problem of obtaining international legal personality.
In addition, when Afghanistan first came to power, it had a bad track record in governance, which made the world lack a good opinion of Afghanistan as a country. In September 1996, the Taliban captured Kabul and declared the establishment of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan", implementing a system of unity of church and state. Most of the Taliban's leaders have graduated from madrasas, which has led to the fact that the state that the Taliban want to build is actually a religious state based on Sharia law.
Under this system of religious law, the status of women is suppressed, they are forbidden to practice most professions, and they must be masked when they go out. In addition, pop music, television, and any other leisure and entertainment products are banned.
In addition, due to the exclusivity of religion, the Taliban ordered the bombing of the Bamiyan Buddhas, which is listed as a World Heritage Site, in 2001, an incident that was also opposed by hundreds of countries in the United Nations, but the Taliban remained unmoved. More importantly, the Taliban are inextricably linked to many terrorist groups.
Because of the Taliban's bad deeds when they first came to power, the international community did not agree with the Taliban. The return of the Taliban to Kabul after two decades has also caused widespread concern in the international community about whether Afghanistan will regress in history.
The Taliban are also well aware of the concerns of the international community and are eager to say that the Taliban have changed somewhat compared to 20 years ago. In an effort to win the goodwill of the international community, the Taliban announced a series of commitments after returning to Kabul in August 2021 in an attempt to gain recognition from the international community once and for all.
For example, the Taliban promised not to liquidate their opponents, and the Taliban government issued an amnesty to pardon all former government personnel and wanted them to return to their posts. Wishing to promote a peaceful transfer of power and form a coalition government with the participation of all parties; commitment to women's rights; commitment to the freedom of the media; commitment to counter-terrorism; Promise anti-drug and a series of content.
Despite this series of promises, the Taliban have not been fully implemented. On the issue of amnesty, although the Taliban pardoned a large number of former government personnel, it is not entirely unaccountable. According to United Nations statistics, in the 10 months from August 2021 to June 2022, the Taliban interim government executed at least 160 former government security officials and government officials who the Taliban considered guilty of crimes.
In addition to this, since the beginning of 2024, there have been a number of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, which have not only targeted Taliban government personnel, but also Afghanistan civilians. The main terrorist threat facing the Taliban now comes from the Islamic State Khorasan Provincial Group. It can be said that on the issue of counter-terrorism, the Taliban have fulfilled their promises, but they are not thorough enough.
On the other hand, on the issue of women's human rights, the Taliban's policies and commitments have actually deviated, and many people are still prohibited from going out to work.
Of course, all the Taliban's promises, although not fully fulfilled, are still partially fulfilled, which is why China and Russia have actively called on the international community to engage with the interim government of Afghanistan, because the international community's exclusion of Afghanistan will not make Afghanistan better, but will only make Afghanistan face a more serious humanitarian crisis. Moreover, the United States and the West do not recognize the Afghanistan interim government, in addition to the obvious reasons, in fact, they also have their own selfish intentions, after all, the NATO coalition led by the United States was driven out of the Afghanistan by the Taliban, and now United States is still seizing dozens of tons of gold Afghanistan and refusing to return it.