The Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar is willing to join the Afghan peace process, the Afghan High Peace Council said on Friday.
According to an Afghan private TV channel, the Council said there is optimism that the Taliban’s willingness to hold peace talks will increase, adding that direct and indirect contacts were being made with the group.
It comes as Pakistani media have published reports saying that Mullah Omar was ready to hold direct talks with the United States. The New York Times earlier wrote that the Taliban group was willing to join the peace process, something the High Peace Council also confirms.
“Mullah Mohammad Omar is ready to join the peace process and he no more sticks to not holding talks with the Afghan government,” Ismaiel Qasemyar, a top member of the High Peace Council, said.
He said direct and indirect contacts were made with important sources and there is more optimism. “When we express optimism, it is not baseless optimism,” Mr Qasemyar stressed.
While the Taliban dismiss such reports, the New York Times has recently written that the Taliban have in their recent statements expressed readiness to hold talks before withdrawal of all foreign forces from Afghanistan.
Some of the Pakistani media reports quote officials saying that Mullah Omar has put forward some conditions including withdrawal of foreign forces and the release of all Taliban members from US and Afghan jails.
why talk wiht these religious barbarians? there can be no justification with talks with these islamic terrorists.they’ve killed thousands of our people,their ideology is based on sickening misogyny and homophobia.these beasts cannot be allowed to make a comeback,the only way is to fight and destroy their backs otherwise we’ll have beheadings and stoning to death of women in our streets.
May ALLAH RESTORE Amir MULLA UMAR GOVERNMENT SOONEST POSSIBLE AND HE SETS THE PRAGMATIC Islam IN FOOT PRINTS OF HAZRAT OMAR.
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