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Taliban Political Committee Chief Calls Attacks on Afghan Security Forces "Impermissible"
[Tolo News] On Sunday, the Taliban's Political Committee Chief, Motasim Agha Jan, said that his group's attacks on Afghan military and police forces were "impermissible" signaling a dramatic departure from their traditional stance in support of such tactics.In an exclusive interview with TOLOnews, Agha Jan said that Afghan army and police forces are sympathetic to the plight of the Afghan people and should not be killed by the Taliban. He added that the killing of civilians and Afghan security personnel in Taliban attacks is not a practice the group approves of. "Taliban does not have enmity with the army and police forces or with Afghans because we [Afghans] are all brothers, Mohammedans and from the same country," Agha Jan told TOLOnews. The Taliban leader went further to assert that if Afghans do not work together for peace and stability, internal conflict would plague the country. "If Afghans don't put the interests of the country first, I think our enemies will push us away from the religious and defensive war we are in, and into an internal war against ourselves," Agha Jan said. In the past, the Taliban has heralded the killing of Afghan cops as a great achievement. This marks the first time a senior figure of the group has publically stated that the killing of security forces is unwanted. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-21 |
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