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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan Taliban deny reports of peace talks: spokesman |
| 2015-02-20 |
| [DAWN] An Afghan Taliban spokesperson said Thursday that a report stating the leadership of the faction is willing to hold peace talks with US officials is fabricated. Zabiullah Mujahid has said that reports of the faction pushing for peace talks are false. Earlier, a Rooters report had quoted senior Mighty Pak Army and diplomatic officials as saying that the Afghan Taliban have signalled through the Pak military that they are willing to open peace talks, which could be held later in the day. The Rooters report had also quoted sources within the Afghan Taliban as saying that their negotiators would hold the first round of peace talks with US officials 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... later on Thursday, although no comment was immediately available from US or Qatari officials. Previous efforts to negotiate an end to a war that began in late 2001 have proved fruitless, but the latest signals had raised hopes of a much-needed boost for new Afghanistan's Caped 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. .. . "The first session will take place today in Qatar and then there would be another session on Friday. Let us see what happens as talks before did not yield any results," a senior member of the Afghan Taliban had said by telephone from Qatar. |
| Posted by:Fred |