It looks like the Afghanistan crisis is now over.
Just this morning, I read on The Daily Mail that the Taliban have vowed to fight climate change.
( no, it's not an article from the Onion; I wish it was.)
Rest Easy, My Friends
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The
Taliban has vowed to tackle
climate change and global security as part of the terror group's attempt to rebrand itself and modernise despite reports of civilian executions and the erosion of women's rights under the new Afghan regime.
Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a member of the Taliban's Cultural Commission, says the Islamists want to play a role on the global stage.
He told
Newsweek: 'We hope not only to be recognised by regional countries but the entire world at large as the legitimate representative government of the people of
Afghanistan who have gained their right of self-determination from a foreign occupation with the backing and support of an entire nation after a prolonged struggle and immense sacrifices despite all odds being stacked against our people.
'We believe the world has a unique opportunity of rapprochement and coming together to tackle the challenges not only facing us but the entire humanity.
'These challenges ranging from world security and climate change need the collective efforts of all, and cannot be achieved if we exclude or ignore an entire people who have been devastated by imposed wars for the past four decades.'