A gloomy picture for Afghan peace talks as Taliban continues to fight
By Farid Behbud, Yan Liang
KABUL, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The prospects of the ongoing peace negotiations with Taliban appears to be bleak as radical outfit fighting Afghan and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has vowed to continue armed struggle until foreign troops leave Afghanistan.
Amid increasing militancy and muscling by warring sides in Afghanistan, efforts to push for peace talks and national reconciliation in Afghanistan have been accelerated in the insurgency-hit country, however, no positive signs are on the horizon for the near future, local experts say.
"Reaching a settlement through negotiation appears very difficult as both the government and its Western backers and the Taliban have their own pre-conditions and that the gap is too wide to reach a deal between them," Mohammad Daud Noori, a lecturer of international relations in Kabul University, told Xinhua on Saturday.
The Afghan government says that any Taliban elements renounce violence, sever ties with the al-Qaida network and accept the Afghan constitution are welcome in the reconciliation process; while the Taliban outfit makes the withdrawal of international troops from the country as a precondition before they participate in peace talks.
"With such perspectives and firm stance, bringing Taliban high- ranking leaders to the negotiation table seems extremely difficult if not impossible at least in the near future, even though there might be talks behind the scene, but in public the Taliban reject, " Noori said.
"There is no negotiation with the United States or with any other countries and we deny any report about such kind of peace talks. We said this many times before," Zabihullah Mujahid, who claims to speak for Taliban outfit, told local media via cell phone from an undisclosed location on June 18, after Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed that the U.S. was in contact with Taliban militants for peace talks.
"The recent reports of peace talks with the Taliban have been coincided with the announcement of the troop's drawdown by U.S. President Barack Obama from Afghanistan," Noori believed, and there could be two reasons.
Firstly, Obama wants to send a signal to the Taliban that the U. S. forces are going to leave the country and that they should take part in reconciliation process. Secondly, it could be a message for U.S. and Afghan public that while the troops are leaving the country there has been some advances in political settlement to bring peace and stability in Afghanistan, Noori said.
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