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| Peace Process Being Sabotaged by Outsiders: Faizi |
| 2013-03-18 |
[Tolo News] Around 18 Taliban members who have shown a desire to negotiate with the Afghan government or join the grinding of the peace processor have recently been killed, President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... 's front man has told TOLOnews to illustrate the reach of those opposed to a government-Taliban peace deal. "Over the past month, a number of Taliban who were wanting to join the grinding of the peace processor and had maintained relations with the Afghan government and High Peace Council were recently caught and put in prison, and about 17 or 18 of them were killed after being tortured," said Aimal Faizi on Saturday, blaming outsiders. "The grinding of the peace processor is being sabotaged and it will continue to be [sabotaged]. Some countries do not want the process to be carried out," he added. The High Peace Council said the deaths and arrests are a sign of the disarray of the grinding of the peace processor both inside and outside Afghanistan, warning that the disorder will end up harming those causing it. "They may sabotage it, but they should be concerned that the fire that is being ignited in Afghanistan and on which they are throwing fuel will set themselves alight one day," said leading HPC member Mohammad Ismail Qasimyar. At least one political analyst believes that the Taliban are "pawns" in Pakistain's political aims and are backed by a number of groups inside the Pak government. "The Taliban are the pawns of Pakistain and they want Pakistain's interests. Therefore the grinding of the peace processor is their pawn too," said Jawid Kohestani, political expert. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... a former Taliban leader accused both Kabul and Islamabad of not being honest in its grinding of the peace processor efforts saying there are people in both governments seeking personal interest. "There are people within the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistain that are seek personal benefits in the grinding of the peace processor," said Sayed Akbar Agha, former head of Taliban's Jaish al-Mohammedaneen group, on Sunday. "The governments of Afghanistan and Pakistain are not being honest towards the grinding of the peace processor," he added. Nevertheless, criticism from the Afghan government throughout the grinding of the peace processor has been leveled at Islamabad, even as a number of Afghan Taliban members have been released from Pak prisons at the HPC request. Over the past months, Pakistain has released as many as 26 Taliban prisoners including the former justice minister of the Taliban regime Mullah Nooruddin Torabi, and also Anwarul Haq Mojahid. |
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