[Tolo News] Afghan Ambassador to Pakistain Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal has said the Taliban has chosen war over peace talks with Afghanistan as the group believes this will help them reach their goals.He said: "Taliban believes in war and they [Taliban] think by continuing the war they can reach their goals in Afghanistan, especially in the upcoming war season, which is a big hindrance to peace," said Zakhilwal.
His comments come after Pakistain's national security advisor, Sartaj
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...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in goodjihadis and
badjihadis as a matter of national policy...
, recently voiced concern over the rejection of peace talks by the Taliban. He said Pakistain can play a vital role in Afghanistan's grinding of the peace processor but cannot directly order the Taliban to join the negotiations.
In reaction to Aziz's remarks the Afghan government said if the Taliban does not join the peace talks the group will face the full wrath of the security forces.
"Our request from Pakistain is that on the basis of agreements bring Taliban to the table and if this does not happen we, on the basis of quadrilateral meeting agreements, have fully prepared ourselves for military operations against the Taliban," said 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. ..
's deputy front man Dawa Khan Menapal.
However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
there are still skeptics who claim Pakistain is not being honest in its dealings with 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....
"Afghanistan also reaches the conclusion that waiting for Pakistain's commitments is a mistake and Pakistain's promises are false and waste time," said deputy speaker of the senate Abdullah Qarloq.
Meanwhile Pak analysts believe that the new stance of the Taliban is a sign that they are not interested in peace talks.
"Taliban are worrying about their disparities and if they go for peace talks the disparities will be increased," said Rahimullah Yousofzai, a Pak political analyst.
It was hoped that the Afghan delegation and the Taliban would meet in direct face-to-face talks in early March. However,
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the Taliban refused to join the process ‐ resulting in the current deadlock.