The Afghan Taliban on Saturday rejected the trilateral forum agreement in Islamabad to give a safe passage to those militants willing to talk to the Afghan government.
In a message, Taliban Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid called the decision a US tactic to surrender jihadis.
In the wake of the Karzai’s administration quest for holding direct talks with the Taliban and the desire of Washington to resume the stalled talks with them in Qatar, the high-level delegation from the US, Afghanistan and officials from Pakistan met on Friday to discuss the challenges and opportunities in reconciliation as well as peace in Afghanistan and other issues.
The meeting of the trilateral forum also known as core group agreed to form a sub-group at UN level to coordinate activities at New York and another group would comprises of experts to find out ways and means to provide the negotiable Taliban with safe passage including delisting their names from the UN terrorists’ list.
Mujahid said the US and its allies were engaged in self-deception by applying such tactics in the face of their defeat.
“The US and its allies have so far not recognized mujahideen, who are not fighting for positions or greed. Rather we are doing jihad as an independent nation and representatives of Pakhtuns for freedom.”
“The US is on run and on the verge of defeat and it is trying to secure its status quo in the world,” he said, “as according to the meeting in Islamabad the Mujahideen would surrender in the name of reconciliation.”
He said they (the US and its allies) should not expect anyone from among the mujahideen to surrender.
“We have not yet reached to the stage of holding peace talks with the international community. The focus is on initiation of CBMs before the talks for peace, consensus in this connection is in developing process but so far even implementation of the measures have not been started,” Mujahid said.
Releasing Taliban leadership detained Guantanamo military prison was one of the important conditions of Taliban for CBMs.
