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“I ask all governments, especially Islamic countries, that they should start recognition,” Afghanistan’s acting PM Mullah Hasan Akhund said, in his first major public broadcast appearance since he assumed the role in September.

The US, its allies and even Russia and China have yet to recognize the Taliban government due to concerns over continued links with terrorism as well as human rights abuses and banning girls’ education. Some of the Taliban’s cabinet members are blacklisted under US and UN sanctions.

A 2,670 kilometre land border drawn up by the British Empire in 1893 to safeguard its interests in Southern Asia continues to create tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan 128 years later.

The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has denied a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report which said that the fall of the country to the new regime has accelerated human rights crises and humanitarian catastrophe.