DOHA/PESHAWAR: Afghan Taliban want to be removed from a UN blacklist before considering rejoining peace talks aimed at ending a 15-year civil war, a senior member said, as its political wing met activists at an unofficial forum in Qatar.
Prospects of the Taliban joining any talks had appeared slim. But a Taliban member said that the group could participate if the UN Security Council cancelled a resolution freezing assets and limiting travel of senior figures.
“We conveyed them to first remove us from the ?blacklist of the United Nations and allow us to freely travel around the world and then we can think about holding peace talks,” said the Taliban member, speaking on condition of anonymity.
On Saturday morning, activists, former Afghan officials and Taliban representatives arrived at a hotel in downtown Doha for a two-day meeting on resolving the war organized by Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, a Nobel peace prize-winning crisis group.
“The meeting is providing us an opportunity to express our views about the future of Afghanistan,” said Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Taliban which is itself riven by factional infighting.
DAILLY TIMES
YEMI
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