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UN removes five former Taliban members from sanctions list
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The UN announced Friday it has removed five former senior members of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan from its sanctions blacklist.
The UN Security Council Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee said it had approved the deletion of five entries from its so-called Consolidated List following a regular review.
The delisted persons included two Taliban officials who were marked as 'reportedly deceased'. The other three were Abdul Satar Paktin, a former foreign minister, Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former deputy mine minister and ambassador to Pakistan, and Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad Awrang, who once served as Afghanistan's UN envoy.
The committee said that 'assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo' imposed on the individuals, as requested by UN Security Council Resolution 1904, will be no longer applicable.
The delisting move followed Afghan President Hamid Karzai's request to the Security Council to drop its sanctions against some Taliban members in an effort to push forward the country's embattled national reconciliation process.
Karzai reportedly had asked for more names to be removed from the sanctions list, which was first established by Security Council Resolution 1267 adopted in 1999 and later updated regularly. |
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Bringing you the latest news from Afghanistan, the Afghanistan Sun tries to leave no stone unturned.
Our news extends from Kabul, the capital, to all parts of the country. We cover the reconstruction, the continuing military operations, the trials and tribulation of the interim government, and the pathway to elections.
We don't dodge the controversies either, the impact of the Afghan warlords that retain power throughout much of the country, the continuing presence of Taliban elements, the aftermath of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, eliminated in the military conflict of late 2001 and early 2002, and the resurgence of the opium growing and drug trade in Afghanistan.
Whether it's hard news or stories of general interest, the Afghanistan Sun has a mission to cover it all. The online newspaper also provides updates of what's happening in the region, particularly in the surrounding Pakistan, Central Asian, and former Russian states, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
World news, finance, sports and markets features, and we have a news poll where readers can register their views on regular topics. |
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