(MENAFN- Afghanistan Times) AT News Report
KABUL: Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Sunday said
that some individuals and groups try to raise violence ahead of the peace
process, adding that they seek privileges by these acts.
Though the president did not name any specific group, but
Taliban have recently intensified attacks on security forces in different
areas, while their representatives are involved in peace negotiation with the
US diplomats.
However, Ali Amiri, a political expert in Kabul, believes
that the Taliban aim to bring more pressures on the government, not seek
privilege.
'Because the Taliban now have important and strategic grounds
under control, and have gained somehow political legitimacy in the region. They
both negotiate with the United States at the international level and are in
contact with Russia. More than any other time, Pakistan is openly and almost
legitimately cooperating with the Taliban. Therefore, the Taliban need no
political gain as the president claims,' said Amiri.
Taliban have stepped up attacks, while at the meantime they
go talks ahead with the United States, he said, adding that the militants are
continuing attacks this year without officially announcing as they usually
announced their so-called spring offensive.
According to reports, US special representative on the
Afghan peace process Zalmay Khalilzad has recently met with his counterparts
from China, Russia, and the European Union in Washington and discussed Afghan
peace talks.
'We all came together for lunch we respect Afghan
sovereignty, want peace for all Afghans & seek an Afghanistan that is never
a source of threat for any of us,' Khalilzad has said in Washington, as he gets
prepared to hold the sixth round of talks with Taliban negotiators in Qatar.
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