Taliban minister to visit Iran for talks on migrants

The Taliban’s Minister for Refugees, Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, is going to visit Iran for a series of negotiations, particularly problems relating to the Afghan migrants.

According to Tasnim news agency, the caretaker government of Afghanistan has announced that Haqqani will pay a visit to Tehran with a delegation.

The visit, to take place before Eid al-Fitr, will focus on efforts to address the challenges that Afghan migrants face in Iran and resolve the border issues between the Islamic Republic and the Taliban.

Bilal Karimi, Deputy Spokesman for the Taliban, has said that the delegation accompanying Haqqani will include representatives from the Taliban’s judiciary and attorney general’s office.

Despite sanctions and many other problems, Iran has been hosting millions of Afghans for decades amid wars and harsh living conditions in the Central Asian nation.

According to estimates, some 300,000 more refugees have entered Iran since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in mid-August. 

Recently, during a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Taliban's acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi thanked the government and people of Iran for their hospitality in difficult conditions, stressing Kabul’s determination to expand relationship and cooperation with Tehran.

Amir-Abdollahian said "millions of Afghan brothers and sisters" living in Iran for the past 40 years have always been provided with necessary services.

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