Reviewing engagement with Taliban, says US on rights violations in Afghanistan
FirstpostWashington: The US is reviewing its approach and engagement with the Taliban regime in the context of the slew of human rights violations taking place in Afghanistan, a top official in the Biden administration has said, emphasising that Washington is actively evaluating with its allies and partners to take the next appropriate steps towards it. US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price, in a press briefing on Monday, said that the US continues to be the world’s leading humanitarian provider to the people of Afghanistan, providing $1.1 billion in assistance since August 2021. “We have been reviewing our approach and engagement with the Taliban in the context of many of the human rights violations, the draconian edicts, the repugnant actions that we’ve seen from the Taliban in recent weeks and in recent months,” Price told reporters at his daily news conference here. Price said that the US is reviewing its approach in terms of the grave humanitarian violations that are taking place in the country as well as the actions the world has seen from the Taliban in recent weeks and recent months.