{"id":5339,"date":"2026-01-21T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/21\/taliban-chief-of-staff-meets-qatar-emir-dimdex-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:58:31","slug":"taliban-chief-of-staff-meets-qatar-emir-dimdex-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/21\/taliban-chief-of-staff-meets-qatar-emir-dimdex-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Chief of Staff Meets Qatar Emir in Doha Amid DIMDEX 2026 Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qari Muhammad Fasihuddin Fitrat, Chief of Staff of the Taliban&#8217;s armed forces, traveled to Doha to participate in the International Defense and Maritime Exhibition DIMDEX 2026 and held meetings with senior Qatari officials on the sidelines of the event.<\/p>\n<p>According to released information, on the first day of his visit, he had a brief meeting with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar. No further details about the content of this meeting have been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>One day later, the Taliban Chief of Staff met with General Jassim bin Mohammed Al Manaei, a senior military official in Qatar. During this meeting, both parties discussed bilateral cooperation and mutual relations, and symbolic gifts, including a commemorative plaque, were exchanged.<\/p>\n<p>These meetings take place within the framework of Qatar&#8217;s pragmatic and cautious relations with Afghanistan; relations that began years ago, notably with Qatar hosting the Taliban&#8217;s political office in Doha. Qatar&#8217;s role also includes facilitating past talks with the United States and continuing humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s Chief of Staff met with Qatar&#8217;s Emir and senior officials in Doha during DIMDEX 2026, discussing bilateral cooperation and bilateral ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international","category-secondary-headline","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}