Talks between the United States and the Taliban will be held in Doha today
Doha … News Time
History is going to be established today in Doha, the capital of Qatar. Talking to the United States, which began in February last year, the Taliban are meeting today on February 29 on both deals. 19 years of bloodshed, destruction, sacrifice of thousands of Afghans, loss of millions, spending billions of dollars, today, the United States and the Taliban are agreeing on a deal after millions of bombs used by the United States and its allies and hundreds of suicide bombings by the Taliban. Australia’s Professor Timothy Wax and Jalaluddin Haqqani’s late son Anas Haqqani, who were released from the Taliban and Afghan government in exchange for each other’s release, were friends of this historic event in Doha today are participating in the status quo.
The deal will remain historic as a result of a direct war between the United States and the Taliban and not only Afghanistan but many countries connected to Afghanistan will have profound effects. I am also giving him the name of the deal because both sides have withdrawn from their position in the past. Americans were not ready to leave Afghanistan in the past, and this deal will gradually lead to their withdrawal. While the Taliban are ready to permanently end their ties with organizations like Al-Qaeda and guarantee their land is not used against a foreign country. For which they were not prepared in the past.
Similarly, after 9/11, the Americans wanted to completely eliminate the Taliban and were unwilling to make them part of the political system in any form, they now recognized the existence of the Taliban and agreed to make them part of Afghanistan’s political system. Similarly, the Taliban were not ready to sit down with other Afghans like Ahmad Shah Massoud, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hamid Karzai and Dr. Ashraf Ghani in the past. But now he is ready to sit down with them to form a joint system, which Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s deputy chief, expressed in his article in the New York Times. Similarly, in the past the Taliban insisted on the restoration of their Islamic home and were unwilling to be part of any political system according to the Afghan constitution, they continue to insist on the Islamic system, but are now ready to negotiate with other Afghan factions to form a new political system.
Such a change has come on both sides and those who have played a key role in reaching this change include Zalmay Khalilzad from the US, Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa from Pakistan and DGISI Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed. People like Mullah Abdul Ghani Beradar, Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi and Anas Haqqani played an important role on behalf of the Taliban. Likewise, the role of Sirajuddin Haqqani, son of the deputy rich Taliban leader and Jalaluddin Haqqani, and former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and his direct mentor, Omar Zakhilwal, were of prime importance. Some Pakistani religious figures that influenced the Taliban also played a major role and today are going to be a historic deal in Qatar as the focus of their efforts. But repeatedly, this deal is not a guarantee of peace in Afghanistan. It will not be possible to withdraw all foreign troops from Afghanistan at once, but their withdrawal will be subject to the success of a phased and intra-Afghan or inter-Afghan dialogue. Similarly, the Taliban will not be part of the political system tomorrow, but during interfaith talks they will insist on restoring their Islamic home or at least their political system according to their preferences. Similarly, Pakistan cooperated in the process of reaching Qatar, but other neighbors of Afghanistan, or even China, Iran, India or Russia, were not sabotaging the process.
India could not do this because of the fear of the United States, while Iran, China and Russia also wanted to withdraw NATO forces from Afghanistan, so they too were facilitators. That is why representatives of all countries will be participating in the signing of the Qatar deal but now in the context of inter-Afghan reconciliation, regional powers will try to adjust their own proxies to the new system and impose their own will. As easy as the US and Taliban deal is, the process of international reconciliation will be as difficult. It should be borne in mind that there were mainly two sides in the US and Taliban negotiations – the US and the Taliban. And both goals and concerns were clear, but it still took a year to reach a conclusion while there would be no more than two sides in the interfaith dialogue. Negotiations not only with the Afghan government but also will include representatives of Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Rashid Dostum, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Ustad Mohaqeq, Afghan Civil Society and women.
Now if people like Hamid Karzai have a consensual attitude towards the Taliban, then people like Amrullah Saleh have a very strong stand. All Taliban must also be brought to the page in the inter-Afghan negotiations and on the other hand, the political forces sitting in Kabul have to first bring each other to a page about the Taliban. And then there must be a joint system between the two, but the near history suggests that the Afghans have agreed that they will not agree.
The real key to peace is international reconciliation and not the US Taliban deal. If interfaith dialogue with leaders of the People’s Creed and Flag leaders Burhanuddin Rabbani and Hekmatyar had been successful in the 1980s, the Soviet Union would not have had a chance to intervene. Then if the Mujahideen did not fight among themselves, the Taliban could not have appeared, then if the Taliban and Mujahideen’s interfaith talks were successful and there were no wars between them, the US and NATO would not have had a chance to intervene. Likewise, if inter-Afghan talks are successful now and the flexibility that the Afghan foreigners have, if they show up for each other, peace can be established in Afghanistan, but if the inter-Afghan reconciliation process is not successful so not only will extremist intervention not end, but in the event of a civil war, such a catastrophe can lead to the destruction of the past. So now the Afghan leadership and the Taliban sitting in Kabul have to show more flexibility to each other. What they have shown for the US and other external powers and the Pakistani leadership will have to work even harder for the success of the interfaith dialogue which he did in connection with the US and Taliban deal.
