A carnival float presenting Miss Afghanistan 2026 pictured during the parade to celebrate Rose Monday (Rosenmontag), on February 16, 2026 in Düsseldorf, Germany
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Applicants are told they will “gain practical and professional experience” by “working in a diplomatic mission.”
Afghanistan’s radical Islamist leadership is looking to train young people in Germany.
The Afghan Consulate General in Bonn, which is under the control of the Taliban regime, is now advertising for internship roles on its website.
The programme promises to give successful applicants “practical and professional experience … working within a diplomatic mission.” It is being offered to “students (both mandatory and voluntary internships), graduates, and other individuals who wish to gain professional experience in a diplomatic mission.”
The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan following the Fall of Kabul in 2021. Brussels earlier this year announced its intention to open a direct channel of communication with the group, to address the growing deadlock over the return of Afghan nationals.
B.Z.says the advertisement is “causing head-shaking” in the capital. It asked whether “Jews, and Christians also have a chance of obtaining an internship,” but “the consulate general declined to answer this question.”
The German government, unlike some of its Western counterparts, does not classify the Taliban as a terrorist group.
Green MP Lamya Kaddor lamented on social media that the internship post was not “satire,” describing it as a result of Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt’s policies: “In exchange for a few deportations, the Taliban can do whatever they want here.”
Others joked that Germany’s right-wing populist AfD would likely be punished if it were to set up such programmes of its own.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
