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Taliban’s new demands for ending insurgency include direct talks with US
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Talibs group in Afghanistan has offered new demands for ending the group’s insurgency in the country, including direct talks with the United States, it has been reported.The new conditions include recognition of the political office of the group in 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... and removal of group’s members from the UN blacklist. "That is why there is need for America and its allies to come to the table for direct talks with the Islamic Emirate (the Taliban) for negotiating an end to the occupation," Sohail Shaheen, a Qatar-based front man of the group, quoted by The News said. Shaheen further added, if peace is the objective of the other side, then the Taliban must be allowed to open their "political office" in Qatar and names of their senior members be removed from the UN blacklist. "These obstacles in the way of establishing peace cannot be simply ignored," Shaheen said, warning that "mere slogans and statements" (by the other side) would further complicate the issue rather than promoting Afghan peace. This comes as reports emerged earlier suggesting peace talks could likely kick off between the Afghan government and Taliban group. The Afghan government opted military option against the group after it rejected to participate in direct peace talks earlier this year and after the group announced its annual spring offensive. The government was forced to withdraw from the peace efforts after the group grabbed credit behind a number of deadly attacks across the country, including a major attack on VIP protection unit in 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.... that left over 400 people dead or maimed. Posted by: Fred 2016-12-11 |
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