Thread: Taliban praise suicide bombers, offer their families clothes, cash promises of land

The Taliban have praised suicide bombers who died during the war against the former government and its Western allies and offered their families sums of cash and promises of land.

Key points:

• Families of the suicide bombers were promised plots of land
• Russia hosted talks on Afghanistan with senior Taliban members and neighbouring nations
• Talk participants called for an international donor conference to be held by the UN

Sirajuddin Haqqani — the acting interior minister who has a $US10 million bounty on his head as a "specially designated global terrorist" — met the families at a ceremony at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, which was itself targeted by suicide bombers in 2018.

"In his speech, the minister praised the Jihad and sacrifices of the martyrs and Mujahidin and called them heroes of Islam and the country," the ministry said in a statement on Twitter.

Families of the suicide bombers were given clothing, 10,000 afghani ($166) and promised plots of land, spokesman Qari Sayeed Khosti said.

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God bless them Taliban folk ... taking care of their own.

Giving the suicide bombers ... well, their families anyway, some shekels and some land which has probably ripped from the ethnic minority the Taliban don't like.