Qatari Holds Joint Labour Committee Meeting With Taliban

Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it hosted a joint “labour committee” meeting with Taliban representatives in Doha on Wednesday.

The meeting was co-chaired by Sheikha Najwa bint Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar’s Deputy Minister of Labour and Mohammad Amin Anis, head of labour deployment at the Taliban-led Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

According to the Gulf Times, the meeting "discussed the latest developments in the field of work between the two countries and other related issues".

The Qatari government has refused to provide details on the topics of the agenda of the meeting. However, the Taliban have already asked countries such as Qatar to use Afghan workers.

The Qatari government has received the Taliban delegation with official ceremonies. The Qatari delegation was led by a woman. The Qatari government, like other countries, has included a female official in its delegation with the Taliban, a group that has completely excluded women from the public sphere and confined them to the four walls of their homes.

The Taliban have focused on sending labour out of the country. Recently, the ministers of foreign affairs, labour, and social affairs, and the deputy ministers of public health, interior affairs, and the head of the Taliban's National Bureau of Statistics, in a meeting in Kabul, emphasised on the acceleration of plans to send the workforce abroad.

According to a statement from the Taliban's Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Taliban leader Mullah Hibatullah has also ordered "relevant agencies to play a role in the process of legal sending Afghan workers abroad, consolidating professions, health, birth certificates and other documents, and work in accordance with their responsibilities".