A United Nations Security Council committee has agreed to allow the Taliban’s interim foreign minister. Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi is to travel to Pakistan from Afghanistan to meet with Pakistani and Chinese counterparts.
On Monday, the Reuters news agency reported that Pakistan’s UN mission requested an exemption. Muttaqi is to travel between May 6 and 9 “for a meeting with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China”
The UN Security Council committee agreed to allow Muttaqi to travel to Uzbekistan last month for a meeting of the foreign ministers of neighbouring countries of Afghanistan to discuss urgent peace, security, and stability matters.
Afghanistan’s TOLOnews outlet said earlier on Monday that media in Pakistan were reporting on the upcoming visit. And that Muttaqi would meet with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. Afghanistan’s foreign ministry had not yet commented on the said trip, according to TOLOnews.