Afghan taliban refuse to meet Mullah Bradar in Peshawar

[Farah Sohail]

Taliban commanders refused to meet their former chief in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday because he was accompanied by Pakistani security agents, dealing a blow to attempts to resume Afghan peace talks, security and militant sources said.

Afghanistan and the United States believe Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who has been held in Pakistan since 2010, holds the key to stopping the war in Afghanistan because he is influential enough to persuade his former comrades there to stop fighting.

Pakistan announced his release on September 20 but Baradar, the former Afghan Taliban second-in-command, is still in custody and watched closely by his Pakistani handlers, an arrangement which could undermine his role as a peacemaker.

Confirming these suspicions, an Afghan Taliban commander said Taliban figures refused to come to Peshawar to meet him because he was accompanied by Pakistani security officials.

"Following his release, he spent some time in Karachi and now arrived in Peshawar to hold meetings with senior members of the movement," the source told Reuters.

"Unfortunately, no one among senior Taliban leaders agreed to see him in Peshawar because security personnel are around him."

It was unclear who Baradar wanted to meet and how long he would stay in Peshawar, a volatile city hit by frequent attacks by the Pakistani Taliban, a militant group operating independently from their Afghan namesakes.

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[BATMAN]

How to indetify, Afghan Taliban...? a man with turban? a man with 14th century gun? a man certified Taliban by Hamid Karzai? or a man with ID card signed by Mulla Omar? Wait a minute, if Mullah Omar is living in Afghanistan and recruiting, training and arming his men, than what the hell worlds most powerful armies are doing in Afghanistan?

Can every one share, his personal imagination of operational procedure of Afghan Taliban, in a land occupied by worlds most power full armies.

To me it sounds like fiction / fantasy novel.. one man or handful of men, with zero possibility of free movement can survive as long as a normal living person.
I believe the trillions of dollars US sent to Afghanistan, were enough to buy every living being in Afghanistan and yet we are negotiating!!!!!!!

Most likely some undercover CIA will fake as Taliban, for the purpose of show but to do same show in Peshawar, it just simply cost more and risks of leaks are higher.