KABUL – Members of Mashrano Jirga (Senate) on Sunday said that the Taliban is never ready for peace talks and want to continue their terror attacks.

Speaking at Sunday's Senate session, the Vice-Chair of the House, Mohammad Alam Izedyar said that Taliban and the groups who support insurgency are enemies of the people of Afghanistan.

He asked the Taliban and other insurgent groups to renounce violence and join the peace-building process.

"Taliban's recent attacks have shown that they are not ready for any peace talks. They should be made to stop the killing of innocent people immediately," Mohammad Alam Izedyar said.

Meanwhile, some Afghan Senators have criticized the High Peace Council and the methods they have adopted to bring peace in the country.

"The High Peace Council is obligated to do what that the people of Afghanistan want. The Council should stop its over-spending behavior," said Senator Hidayatullah Rehaye.

"Without the help of some people, the insurgents cannot bring the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) into Kabul. The Peace Council has witnessed the recent killing of civilians and should take stern steps to prevent such attacks from happening again," said Senator Belquis Roshan.

The Senators have expressed their concerns over the increasing terror attacks in Afghanistan and said that most of the attacks have been carried out with support from the Pakistan Government.

The Afghan Government has been pushing hard to get the Taliban negotiate a peace deal before the end of 2014, but the Taliban has consistently refused to talk with the Karzai regime, referring to it as a 'puppet government'.

These comments come in at a time when at least five people including Afghan security forces were killed and 14 others injured in an attack in the heart of Kabul city on Friday.

A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the gates of the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) compound in the Shahrara area of Kabul.

This sparked off a prolonged gun battle between the security forces and the insurgent gunmen for over eight hours.

According to a statement released on Saturday by Afghanistan's Interior Ministry, a six-year old child and an Afghan police officer were killed in the fighting.

The IOM said on Sunday that five Nepalese Gurkha security guards were wounded in the gun battle, one seriously, but denied earlier statements by Afghan officials that two of their security personnel were killed.

At least 14 people were injured, and five insurgents were killed, in addition to the car bomber. (Tolo News)