Editor in Chief: Moh. Reza Huwaida Tuesday, March 19th, 2024

Talks with Taliban without Afghan Input Would Fail: Saleh

Talks with Taliban without  Afghan Input Would Fail: Saleh

KABUL - The former head of the National Directorate of Security, Amrullah Salah, said in an exclusive interview with Tolo news that any kind of peace negotiations that lacked one of the three key players - the US, Afghanistan and the Taliban - would be a failure.
He also said that Pakistan and the Taliban have no interest in possible negotiations in Qatar, and does not see any change in the fundamental aims of Taliban.

He pointed out that the Taliban have not condemned armed extremism, have not renounce violence and do not believe in a multicultural Afghanistan.
"The Taliban feel safe in Pakistan and are looking to concentrate on their aims," Mr. Saleh said. "So, the soft approach from the Afghan government and NATO raises questions."

He added: "Grossman meets with Taliban leaders; who represented the Afghan people in those negotiations? All the
parties should be directly involved in Afghan solution." Marc Grossman is the special US Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan

He said that the current system of government and democracy in Afghanistan are an achievement of the Afghan people.
e said that the establishment of a political for the Taliban in Qatar undermines the trust of Afghans in their government.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai recently said there have been secret three-way talks between his government, the US and the Taliban in an effort to end a decade long war in the country. The Taliban have denied any kind of negotiations with the Afghan government.

Karzai told The Wall Street Journal newspaper in an interview published on Thursday that he has seen enough signs to believe the Taliban are "definitively" interested in exploratory talks, seen by some as the best chance of ending the country's costly war, now entering its 11th year.