Qatar Hopes For Afghan Airport Aid Corridors Within 48 Hours: Official

"We hope in the next 24 or 48 hours to see the opening of humanitarian corridors so humanitarian aid can enter through Kabul airport -- and other functioning airports," Doha's special envoy said.

Qatar hopes to see the establishment of humanitarian aid corridors at Afghan airports within 48 hours, Doha's special envoy to Afghanistan told the Al Jazeera broadcaster on Friday. The Gulf nation has worked with the Taliban to quickly reopen Kabul's airport, whose closure since the departure of US troops threatens major strategic and humanitarian challenges. "We hope in the next 24 or 48 hours to see the opening of humanitarian corridors so humanitarian aid can enter through Kabul airport -- and other functioning airports," Mutlaq al-Qahtani told the Qatari channel from Afghanistan. A jet from the Gulf country was the first foreign aircraft to land in the Afghan capital on Wednesday since frenzied evacuations ended a day earlier with the American withdrawal.