Head of High Council for National Reconciliation of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah have asked for an urgent session of the UN Security Council to be held over Afghanistan, saying that the situation in Afghanistan is critical.
Abdullah Abdullah said that the gains of the past twenty years are at risk, which requires the ongoing atrocities to be stopped as soon as possible.
The Head of the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) was addressing representatives of the US, China, Pakistan, and Russian on the last day of international meetings on Afghanistan in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday, August 12.
He also said that the Taliban, with their recent series of attacks on major cities of Afghanistan, left thousands dead and wounded and made hundreds of thousands of others leave their homes.
The issue of Afghanistan is now threatening global peace and security. Thus, there is an urgent need for a session of the UN Security Council to address the misery, he added.
With their recent increase in violence, the Taliban have toppled ten provinces only in the past seven days.
