The de facto government Taliban hinders her efforts Germany delete Afghans who worked for her and others who are threatened with persecution by the new regime, according to a report in Der Spiegel magazine.

The ongoing implementation of a plan to resettle thousands of former workers on behalf of German government agencies, artists and activists in Germany is questionable due to the position of Sunni fundamentalists, the magazine writes, citing internal documents from the German Foreign Ministry.

While Berlin was able to transfer 1,044 Afghan men and women to Germany in July, another 7,700 were to be transferred between mid-July and mid-September, but this is no longer possible due to increasingly tight control by the Taliban. writes Spiegel. .

Lack of passports is a “big problem”.

The pace of departures in the current period has slowed down, the German Foreign Ministry confirmed to the German agency. He added that currently the Taliban only allow citizens with passports to leave, although their regime issues few such documents.

German diplomacy noted that the lack of passports is a “big problem” that does not leave the exit routes intact.

The Taliban are also blocking the implementation of an agreement between Germany and Pakistan, which was concluded in June and was supposed to allow former employees of the German military or German government agencies to enter Pakistani territory, even if they did not have a passport.

The Taliban regained power in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021. They met with little resistance from the Afghan military, some of which were trained by the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces.

In June 2021, the Bundeswehr left Afghanistan earlier than planned. The schedule was set by the USA.

After the Taliban captured Kabul, Germany took part in a chaotic evacuation operation. Dramatic scenes unfolded at the international airport of the Afghan capital in the second half of August.

In total, Berlin has issued passport visas and residence permits to approximately 18,600 Afghans it believes are at risk. In June, the Foreign Ministry estimated that two-thirds of them had already arrived in Germany.

^{Source: APE – MEB, dpa}