The Taliban’s de facto government is blocking Germany’s efforts to remove Afghans who worked for it and others deemed at risk of persecution by the new regime, according to a report in Der Spiegel magazine.
The continued implementation of the plan to relocate thousands of former workers on behalf of German state institutions, artists and activists to Germany is in doubt because of the stance of Sunni fundamentalists, according to the magazine, citing internal German Foreign Ministry documents.
While Berlin was able to transfer 1,044 Afghan men and women to Germany in July, another 7,700 people were supposed to be transferred between mid-July and mid-September, but this no longer seems feasible due to increasingly tight controls by the Taliban, the Spiegel.
The pace of departures has slowed down in the current period, the Foreign Ministry confirmed to the German Agency. He added that the Taliban currently allow only citizens with passports to leave, although few such documents are issued by their regime.
The lack of passports is a “big problem” that leaves no exit route unscathed, German diplomacy noted.
The Taliban are also blocking the implementation of an agreement between Germany and Pakistan, which was concluded in June and was supposed to allow former employees of the German military or German state institutions to enter Pakistani territory even if they did not have a passport.
The Taliban regained power in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021. They met little resistance from the Afghan armed forces, some of whom were trained by the Bundeswehr, the German military.
In June 2021, the Bundeswehr left Afghan territory, earlier than planned. The schedule was set by the US.
After the Taliban took over Kabul, Germany took part in the chaotic evacuation operation. Dramatic scenes unfolded at the Afghan capital’s international airport in the second half of August.
In total, Berlin has proceeded to issue passport visas and residence permits for about 18,600 Afghans it believes are at risk. In June, the Foreign Ministry estimated that two-thirds of them had already arrived on German soil.
SOURCE: AMPE
Source: Capital
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