Overview
- Taliban spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said returnees would be handed to the Afghan interior ministry, processed under Sharia rules, and registered biometrically for monitoring.
- ARD reports that Mohammad Nabi Omari, a senior deputy to Taliban interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, participated in the meeting.
- Discussions covered logistics such as shifting from costly charter flights to scheduled routes with stopovers, possible police escorts, and who receives deportees on arrival.
- Berlin characterizes the contacts as operational rather than recognition, and Spiegel reports ministry optimism that additional flights could take place this year.
- Accounts differ on the German delegation’s size, and Taliban statements say wider topics like drugs and livelihoods were raised; Germany has carried out two deportation flights since 2021.