Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai made every exploit to ensure
durable peace in his state and called on Taliban insurgents to lay
down feather their arms and join in the authorities.
In his latest proposal for talks, the president on Dec. 8, the first
day of Eidul Adha or the biggest annual religious commemoration, once
again called upon the armed oppositions to give up insurgency and play
their role for rebuilding the war-torn kingdom.
Early last month after exploring New York and London, the president
said that he wanted Taliban elusive chief Mullah Mohammad Omar to
return home and negotiate for peace. He would provide security if the
Taliban chief profits home.
"If I hear from him that he is desirous to come to Afghanistan or to
negotiate for peace, I as the president of Afghanistan will go to any
length providing protection," Karzai told newsmen in November.
However, the Taliban leader utterly rejected the offer, by saying that
there would be no negotiation until the strange troops pull out from
the country. However, it is a condition that the Afghan government
opposes it.
The chief of state who is calling for deploying more troops to
Afghanistan has argued that his militancy-plagued land needs the
presence of international troops for several more years until its
national security forces are capable to defend the country's power
independently.
The Afghan leader at a joint press conference with British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown in Kabul on Dec. 13 urged the international
community to station troops in forward areas to check cross-border
terrorism along the border with Pakistan.
Two days later, the Afghan president at a joint press conference with
U.S. President George W. Bush reiterated his demand for deploying more
troops to Afghanistan.
To achieve the reconciliation process and bring Taliban militants into
fold, the Afghan President has called on Saudi Arabia, the important
country in the Muslim world, to play its role in ending turmoil and
stabilizing peace and security in the war-battered country.
With the mediation of the Kingdom's ruler King Abdullah, figures from
Taliban and the Afghan government including Qayum Karzai, a brother of
President Hamid karzai, held a meeting in Saudi Arabia to find a
peaceful solution to their country in late September.
However, the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has ruled out any
talks with the government, adding anyone who attended the talks did
not represent Taliban movement.
Omar, who has gone underground since driving out of power by the
U.S.-led forces in late 2001, insisted that no talks will be held with
the Afghan government unless the foreign troops pull out of
Afghanistan.
Another dissident warlord and former Prime Minister Gulbudin Hekmatyar
whose supporters parallel to Taliban have been fighting the Afghan and
international troops have made similar demand.
The leader of his own radical Islamic faction the Hizb-e-Islamiin his
handful statements over the past year utterly rejected any talks with
the government in the presence of the foreign troops in Afghanistan.
Observers here believed that the Afghan administration cannot survive
longer if the international troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
Currently, more than 70,000-strong NATO-led peacekeeping force ISAF
(International Security Assistance Force) and the U.S.-led Coalition
troops have been deployed in Afghanistan to root out militants and
ensure durable peace in the post-Taliban country.
According to local media reports on Saturday that Taliban chief the
most wanted man in U.S. has proposed a peace plan for his country.
"Mullah Omar delivered his plan through Saudi Arabia King Abdullah bin
Abdul Aziz," Afghan newspaper Daily Outlook said.
The newspaper said that the Taliban hardliner leader contrary to the
past suggested the replacement of NATO troops with forces from the
Muslim countries and setting a timetable for the pullout of NATO and
U.S.-led forces from Afghanistan.
Another demand made by Mullah Omar is about sharing power with the
current Afghan regime as he also demanded the consolidation of the
Taliban fighters into the Afghan army and amnesty for them.
Although there no Taliban spokesman was available for comment about
it, the outfit's past experiences and its inflexible policies showed
that their opposition on settling the issues will not be peacefully.
Keeping in mind Taliban' harsh policies during their six-year reign,
continuing the same criterions after ousting from power and no
alteration in their leadership clearly gives the communication that
the outfit would not compromise on its principles which is the
creation of autocratic administration in the war-torn central Asian
country.
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