Afghan Taliban not prepared for talks, Pakistan told
ISLAMABAD: Afghan Taliban negotiators have told Pakistan they are not prepared to reason assent talks with President Ashraf Ghani’s supervision for now, sources in a mutinous organisation told The Express Tribune on Friday.
Three comparison members of a Qatar-based Taliban domestic bureau arrived in Pakistan in late Oct after reports suggested that a comparison Taliban personality had met Afghanistan’s view arch in a Gulf nation in a participation a comparison US official.
“The Taliban member have wrapped adult their scarcely two-week revisit and conveyed to Pakistani officials that they have not nonetheless motionless to enter into discourse with a Kabul administration,” a Taliban source said. “The Taliban leaders insisted they could usually contend either or not a organisation will join talks after dual or 3 months,” a source added.
Other sources informed with Taliban inner discussions pronounced Pakistan told a visiting negotiators that it wants a Taliban to join a assent process.
Pakistan is clearly dissapoint during a Taliban’s refusal to come to a traffic list and could press them to examination their position on a assent process. It is widely believed that a detain of comparison Taliban personality Ahmadullah Muti alias Mullah Nanai final month in Balochistan was directed during conveying a summary to a organisation to join a assent process. Nanai is seen as one of a comparison Taliban leaders against to negotiations.
Taliban sources reliable a apprehension of Nanai and 3 other leaders though gave no reasons for a arrests. A Taliban central had progressing settled that a Qatar-based Taliban leaders had also ‘sought an explanation’ from Pakistan about a detain of a leaders.
Meanwhile, Hizb-e-Islami arch Gulbuddin Hekmayar has urged US president-elect Donald Trump to lift out infantry from Afghanistan. “Withdraw your army and leave Afghans to confirm their fate,” he pronounced in a minute to Trump posted on a website of a group’s Daily Shahadat newspaper.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 12th, 2016.
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