Taliban close Qatar office

[Sedqal]

Lets hope no one in the GHQ gets the marvelous idea of hosting an Afghan Taliban office in Pakistan. Please GHQ we have had enough, please no more strategic depth.

 

[Bratva]

@mafiya - your thoughts.

That why it is concerning Indians so much, Such things ought to happen in negotiations right ?

 

[Sher Malang]

The office was opened for some wrong and trouble making intentions; good that it's closed.

Next time they open an office all the stake holders must be involved Afghan gov, opposition, US and Pakistan.

It really looked funny when they inaugurated the office with Qatari secretary.

 

[Always Neutral]

to protest demands that they remove a sign that identified the movement as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, a diplomat and a Taliban official said on Tuesday.



Who the hell told you that I think like that??this your self-conclusion...

Then obviously you did not see the posts in the thread about opening the office did you?

 

[illusion8]

The office was opened for some wrong and trouble making intentions; good that it's closed.

Next time they open an office all the stake holders must be involved Afghan gov, opposition, US and Pakistan.

It really looked funny when they inaugurated the office with Qatari secretary.

Best would be formalizing the Taliban's Quetta office.

That why it is concerning Indians so much, Such things ought to happen in negotiations right ?

Oh...so it's just small little games that's been played all around.

 

[Jango]

Next time they open an office all the stake holders must be involved Afghan gov, opposition, US and Pakistan.

Looks like you still didn't get it.

This office was never meant to be for peace in Afghanistan. The Afghan govt wasn't ever part of it. This was only a US-Taliban peace broker so that the US pulls out safely and no sh!t happens. Afghanistan was never in the picture.

 

[Sher Malang]

Looks like you still didn't get it.

This office was never meant to be for peace in Afghanistan. The Afghan govt wasn't ever part of it. This was only a US-Taliban peace broker so that the US pulls out safely and no sh!t happens. Afghanistan was never in the picture.

I got it bud but that's the reason everything went wrong.

Best would be formalizing the Taliban's Quetta office.

Pakistan will not let anyone formalize that office but can open an office in any diplomatic enclave inside Islamabad.

 

[Amaa'n]

Look at you indians........
My dears, cant you simply read, they have suspended the talks temporarily to protest against the demands. They sent a signal to karzai that it is not you who gets to suspend talks but us. And where does it say in the books that closing down an office means they lost the war? And if you guys have missed it than there is a thread running where US have said it will not keep any troops in afghanistan and President Obama is really pissed with Karzai.

 

[BATMAN]

Do we have names of Afghan Taliban and reason for calling them Taliban?

 

[Amaa'n]

@Aeronaut @nuclearpak @Oscar i think we should confirm thew news first as it seems dawn is the only one which made this report live and than hindtimes and cbsnews copied it over. If this had been the case it would have been all over the news like wsj,nyt,wp etc.

 

[Kompromat]

@Aeronaut @nuclearpak @Oscar i think we should confirm thew news first as it seems dawn is the only one which made this report live and than hindtimes and cbsnews copied it over. If this had been the case it would have been all over the news like wsj,nyt,wp etc.

Taliban close Qatar office in protest at flag removal

 

[illusion8]

Do we have names of Afghan Taliban and reason for calling them Taliban?

The identities and backgrounds of the delegation’s key members — and thus some of the Taliban leadership’s aims in choosing them — can now be detailed based on interviews with four disparate officials and on public appearances by the group in Qatar. The sources include a member of the Quetta Shura, the Taliban’s leadership council in Pakistan; a Taliban military commander from eastern Afghanistan; a former Taliban official; and a Western official in Kabul who is close to the Doha talks and spoke about the delegation’s general approach. All included the same nine key names, though their lists differed slightly in other ways.

“Every single member of the delegation has been picked by the leadership council after a long series of lengthy discussions and sometimes tense talks,” said the eastern Taliban military commander. “There were certain criteria they should meet. First was loyalty to Mullah Muhammad Omar. Second was having experience in diplomacy. Third was speaking at least one foreign language, either English or Arabic.”

Among the delegation are six former diplomats, five ex-ministers or deputy ministers, and four preachers — one of them so admired for his oratory that the Qatari defense minister is said to be in the congregation when he makes guest appearances at his mosque.

They are all seen as close adherents of Mullah Omar. One, Tayeb Agha, the apparent leader of the delegation, was his secretary and chief of staff. Another, Hafiz Aziz Rahman Ahadi, is the son of Mullah Omar’s teacher at his madrassa in Quetta, Pakistan.

“All of the representatives that we selected and sent to Qatar for peace talks belong to the political wing,” said the Quetta Shura member. “None have a military background. We don’t need to send commanders: we are not fighting in Qatar. We are fighting in Afghanistan.”

While there are some two dozen Taliban officials here — along with their families, they number a couple of hundred people in all — most are administrative and support staff.

The emissaries are by Taliban leadership standards relatively young, mostly in their 40s. Tayeb Agha is apparently the youngest, at age 37 or 38.

Although Mr. Agha is reportedly a fluent English speaker, he was not speaking out for the group last week. That role was filled by Sohail Shaheen, a former second secretary in the Taliban’s embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. He gave a flurry of interviews to Al Jazeera and Japanese and other Arab news outlets after the office was opened, but when the Afghan government threatened to pull the plug, he went quiet.

“We really want to talk,” he said in a brief phone conversation, speaking fluent English with a trace of a Pakistani accent, “but until we decide on our answer, there is nothing we can say.”

The delegation sent seems to be from Mullah Omar with a strong Pakistani base too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/w...n-try-another-tactic.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Pakistan will not let anyone formalize that office but can open an office in any diplomatic enclave inside Islamabad.

Taliban office in Islamabad is a good idea.

 

[Manindra]

One of the most uncivilized & barbaric organization uses white flag