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2021-03-25 Afghanistan
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Taliban Slam Afghan President's Proposal for New Election, insist on Emirate’s return
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 [ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Taliban
...Arabic for students ...
on Wednesday rejected a proposal by 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...
to hold elections later this year, after months of peace talks between the two warring sides have made little progress.
Although he hasn’t made details public, Ghani will announce the election plan at a stakeholder conference in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
next month, according to two government officials.
The move is likely an attempt to undercut a US proposal — supported by Russia — for the formation of an interim government involving the Taliban to rule the country once the last US troops withdraw.
"The government will go to Turkey with a plan for an early election which is a fair plan for the future of Afghanistan," one bigwig said.
The Taliban immediately rejected the proposal.
"Such processes (elections) have pushed the country to the verge of crisis in the past," Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid said of Ghani’s plan.
"They are now talking about a process that has always been scandalous," he told AFP, saying any decision on the country’s future must be hammered out in ongoing talks between the two sides.
"We will never support it."
The United States is due to withdraw the last of its troops by May 1 under a deal hammered out with the Taliban last year, although President Joe The Big Guy Biden
 ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
said earlier this month the deadline would be "tough" to meet.
That deal also paved the way for the Taliban and Afghan government to negotiate a peace plan and hammer out an agreement on how the country should be ruled, but those talks — held since September in Doha, 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
— have made little headway.
Afghanistan has a troubled history at the polls, with elections beset by rampant fraud, low turnout and Death Eater violence.
The Taliban’s response comes hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
that Washington is still weighing up whether to withdraw its troops by the May 1 deadline.
The Afghan government is keen to keep US forces in the country for as long as possible for the vital air cover they provide, with violence raging in recent months.
Kabulov: Taliban Delegates in Moscow Insisted on Emirate's Return
[ToloNews] Zamir Kabulov, the Russian president's envoy for Afghanistan, said that the Taliban during the Moscow meeting insisted on the restoration of the Islamic emirate as part of the solution to the conflict.
"The Taliban's delegation insisted that it's (restoring an Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan) a possible solution in Afghanistan. Their opponents disagreed," said Kabulov.
Kabulov said that Russia is satisfied with the results of the Afghanistan peace conference that Moscow hosted last week and urged the US to comply with agreements to withdraw its troops from the country by May 1.
"The aim of this meeting was to give an impulse to the stalled intra-Afghan talks in Doha. I think this aim was accomplished," said the Russian envoy as quoted by the AP.
According to the report, the Taliban representatives said during talks they were firm on their demand for an Islamic government, without elaborating on what an Islamic government would look like or whether it would mean a return to their repressive rules that denied girls education and women's rights to work, and imposed harsh punishments.
In previous statements, the Taliban have said their vision of an Islamic government would allow girls to attend school, women to work or be in public life, but in every conversation they emphasized the need to follow Islamic injunctions without specifying what that would mean. 
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