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No plans to revive peace talks with Taliban, says Afghan official
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An official in ARG Presidential Palace has said there are no plans to revive peace talks with the Taliban group as efforts to bring the group have not yielded any positive result.President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani  ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..’s spokeman Haroon Chakhansuri has told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that a four-nation group comprising Afghanistan, Pakistain, China and the United States has no plans to meet again after previous rounds of meetings produced no results. Chakhansuri further added "there is no set time" for another meeting of the group. The Afghan government was expecting to participate in direct peace talks with the Taliban group earlier in March this year after the Quadrlateral Coordinatin Group started talks to revive the Afghan peace talks. Afghanistan, Pakistain, China and US officials met for five times in Islamabad and Kabul ...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.... and called on Taliban group to participate in direct peace talks. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the Taliban group rejected the offer and opted to continue insurgency in the country by announcing its annual spring offensive in April this year. The group staged numerous deadly attacks across the country including a major attack on VIP protection unit in Kabul which left at least 64 people dead and over 300 others maimed. The attack by the Taliban group forced the Afghan government to start a military crackdown against the groups pursuing violence and urged Pakistain to take actions against the same groups in its soil. Posted by: Fred 2016-07-15 |
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