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Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Monday that his country was doing everything it could to help people leave Afghanistan.
Qatar is one of a few countries of the world with influence over the Taliban, who took control of the capital Kabul on Sunday.
Thousands of people have been trying to flee the insurgents' advance into the capital through the city's international airport.
“We are trying with all efforts to help our international partners to ensure safe passage of diplomats and other organisations,” Mr Abdulrahman said on a visit to Amman, Jordan.
Mr Abdulrahman did not give details.
He said Qatar “is doing its utmost for there to be preparations for a comprehensive political solution and a complete ceasefire”.
“There is international concern about the fast pace of developments,” Mr Abdulrahman said after meeting Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in Amman.
The Taliban have an office in Doha, where Washington negotiated a US troop withdrawal deal last year on the condition that the insurgents respected a political transition towards a power-sharing agreement.
Several people were reported to have died at Kabul airport on Monday as shots were fired. A stampede was also reported and at least two people were seen falling to their deaths after attempting to cling on to a cargo plane as it took off.
Some of Darwish's last words
"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.
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