On Tuesday, the Pakistani government issued sweeping orders enforcing UN financial sanctions on the Afghan Taliban.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry in a statement late on Saturday said the sanctions were not new but rather laid out in a 2015 UN regulation.
The orders enforce the UN regulations and are issued routinely, the statement said. A similar order was issued in 2019.
The UN-imposed penalties target dozens of individuals including Taliban chief peace negotiator Abdul Ghani Baradar and several members of . . .
