The United Nations Security Council has split the international sanctions regime for the Taliban and al-Qaeda to encourage the Taliban to join reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan.
The council unanimously passed two resolutions, which set up one new blacklist of individuals and organisations accused of links to
Al-Qaeda, and a second for those linked to the Taliban militia. Previously, for last 12 years the two groups were handled by the same sanctions committee.
However, the international powers wanted to separate them to highlight the divide between al-Qaeda s global jihadist agenda and the Taliban s focus on Afghanistan.
The sanctions committee was set up in 1999 when al-Qaeda had major bases in the Taliban, which ruled Afghanistan until they were driven out of power by United States-led forces.
The persons on UN sanctions list include 138 Taliban and 254 Al-Qaeda people.
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