{"id":5869,"date":"2026-02-02T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/02\/taliban-qatar-urban-cooperation-kabul-doha\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:17:00","slug":"taliban-qatar-urban-cooperation-kabul-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/02\/taliban-qatar-urban-cooperation-kabul-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Representative Meets Qatari Official to Discuss Urban Cooperation Between Kabul and Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammed Sohail Shaheen, the Taliban&#8217;s representative in Qatar, held talks with Abdullah bin Hamad bin Abdullah Al Attiyah, Qatar&#8217;s Minister of Municipality, on expanding joint cooperation between the municipalities of Kabul and Doha.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan Embassy in Doha announced in a statement on its X page that the meeting focused on technical and urban cooperation, with both sides sharing their views on developing urban infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, discussions included the construction and repair of roads, building overhead and ground bridges, as well as capacity-building programs for employees of urban departments.<\/p>\n<p>These talks come at a time when, following the Taliban&#8217;s return to power, Afghanistan&#8217;s foreign relations have mostly continued at the level of technical contacts and limited diplomatic engagement, while issues of legitimacy and accountability of the administration remain key challenges in international interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s Qatar representative meets Qatari minister to discuss urban cooperation, infrastructure development, and capacity-building between Kabul and Doha municipalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","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=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}