Will the Biden Administration Take a Powder on Women’s Rights When Taliban Meets With UN at Qatar?

Afghan regime refuses to include women in its delegation to its first UN parley.

AP/Ebrahim Noroozi
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group at Kabul. AP/Ebrahim Noroozi

The Taliban will meet with United Nations officials at Qatar this weekend amidst criticism of the militant Islamic group’s failure to include women in its delegation — a big win for the Taliban. The question on analysts’s minds is whether the Biden administration will sit on its hands. 

“For the Taliban, half of their victory lies in simply showing up at the conference,” a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, Javid Ahmad, tells the Sun. While the UN has led three such meetings at Doha, this will be the first one which the Taliban attends.

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