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Taliban to US: Stop evacuating Afghan experts

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FILES) In this file photo taken on July 18, 2021 the leader of the Taliban negotiating team Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar looks on the final declaration of the peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban presented in Qatar’s capital Doha. KARIM JAAFAR / AFP

Taliban through its spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid on Tuesday at a press conference in Kabul said the United States should stop evacuating skilled Afghans, just as he warned Western forces against extending the August 31 deadline for airlifts out of the country.

The hardline Islamist group said Americans were taking “Afghan experts” such as engineers out of Afghanistan.

“We ask them to stop this process,” he said.

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