Germany will not recognise the Taliban as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan as long as “dire” conditions under the Islamists persist, Germany’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, calling for a united international call on the Taliban for change. No foreign government has formally recognised the Taliban since they took over Afghanistan last August as US-backed foreign forces withdrew after two decades of war. “When we look across the border the situation is dire,” the German minister, Annalena Baerbock, told a news conference in the Islamabad, capital of neighbouring Pakistan. She warned of a…

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