Afghanistan’s Taliban movement has urged the war-torn nation’s former mujahideen factions to join it in their campaign to drive out foreign forces from the country. The Taliban appeal follows complaints by some mujahideen leaders about being sidelined from President Hamid Karzai’s government they brought to power by helping US-led forces with the overthrew of the Taliban in 2001. But the factional forces, many of whom fought against the former Soviet invasion of the country, still have military and political positions in Karzai’s government. “There is no doubt that the former leaders and commanders of Jihad have given a lot of sacrifices for Islam and for the path of freeing the country,” the Taliban said in a statement on their website. “Now, it is necessary that they stand beside their people and the nation and show their sacrifice once again against this invasion...the Islamic Emirate will adopt a understanding path with them and keep its bosom open for them,” the statement said. The Taliban said “If countries allied to America end the occupation of Afghanistan and pull out their troops, then Afghans will not view them as enemies like America,”.