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Ghani forms 12-member team to negotiate with Taliban
[DAWN] Afghan President 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. ..has formed a 12-strong team to negotiate peace with the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , but implementation of any deal will take at least five years, he said on Wednesday. He was speaking at a UN conference on the 17-year-old war between Afghan cops and an increasingly confident Taliban, who are fighting to drive out international forces and establish their version of Islamic law. The Taliban are not at the Geneva talks but will be closely monitoring the gathering of Afghan leaders and international diplomats, which coincides with efforts by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s administration to push for peace with the group. "We seek a peace agreement in which the Afghan Taliban would be included in a democratic and inclusive society," Mr Ghani said, adding that any deal must fulfil certain conditions, including respecting the constitutional rights of women. The president, facing a war-weary public back home, called upon Afghans to back his peace push in an election next April. "Presidential elections in the spring are key to successful peace negotiations. The Afghan people need an elected government with a mandate to obtain ratification [and] implement the peace agreement and lead the societal reconciliation process," he said. "Implementation will take a minimum of five years to reintegrate six million refugees and internally displaced people," he said. The two-day Geneva gathering is intended to help resolve the quagmire created by the war, a development that would pave way for the withdrawal of foreign troops. Posted by: Fred 2018-11-29 |
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