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Taliban wants to be removed from UN blacklist before new peace talks
[Iran Press TV] The Taliban Lion of Islam group says it wants to be removed from the blacklist of the United Nations...where theory meets practice and practice loses... as a condition for rejoining peace talks for an end to the conflict in Afghanistan. "We conveyed them to first remove us from the blacklist of the United Nations and allow us to freely travel around the world and then we can think about holding peace talks," said an unidentified Taliban member during unofficial talks with activists and former Afghan officials in the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i capital of Doha on Saturday. Taliban has reemerged as a strong Lion of Islam group over the past months as it has managed to capture some key areas in the north and south of Afghanistan. The ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... . That has prompted renewed efforts in the country and by neighbors to revive stalled negotiations between the Lion of Islam group and the Afghan government. Pakistain mediated the first round of talks in the summer of 2015, but a planned second meeting was cancelled after news broke that Taliban's founder and long-time leader Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... had died two years ago. Many suspect that Taliban could reappear on the negotiating table as factional infighting and leadership division has deepened in the group since the death of Omar. Zabihullah Mujahid, a front man for the Taliban, said Saturday that representatives of the group had attended the unofficial talks in Doha to express the views of the group on how the situation in the country should be handled. "The meeting is providing us an opportunity to express our views about the future of Afghanistan," said Mujahid, without elaborating on the condition set by other senior members about removal of Taliban from the UN blacklist. Officials from former Afghan administrations who attended the talks said Taliban has yet to make a concrete demand. "So far they have not proposed any concrete ideas about how to move forward. Hopefully by tomorrow we will know if they want peace and if so what their conditions are," said Anwar Ahady, a former minister of finance. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-24 |
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