Salahuddin Rabbani has now assumed the position of head of the High Peace Council to lead it into success in making peace with the Taliban. This is the apparent objective of the appointment to and taking the charge of High Peace Council. But it is, unfortunately, not that easy to remove the clouds of violence from the sky of Afghanistan as those who have adopted violence as their sole tactic and method of battling are too stubborn to change their minds so easily.

In addition, president Karzai wants to strike a deal with the Taliban on his own. This approach is against what the diverse realities of Afghanistan require. There are the Taliban that continue to fight president Karzai's government and international forces. They destroy bridges, roads and burn schools built by the government with funding from international community.

On Tuesday, April 24, 2012, the first vice-president Marshal Qasim Fahim, in a ceremony to introduce Salahuddin Rabbani to the Council, said that the Taliban's demands in the efforts to reconcile with them should be accepted.

The Taliban have the demands to which new generations are averse. The vice-president has also said that the Taliban should also accept the conditions set by the Afghan government - that is to say, they should accept the constitution and democratic and civic values.

It is the issue of reconciling the Taliban's demands with the conditions set by Afghan government and it becomes more difficult when it comes to the demands being made by civil society, human rights groups and women's rights defenders because they all call for trying those Taliban echelons that have been responsible for massacres, systematic violations of human rights and inhuman treatment of Afghan women.

The vice-president has stated that security is the prime need of Afghan people.
It is true. But how to bring security to the country is a question that needs serious and rational consideration. By calling the Taliban as brothers will never lead to security. Accepting the Taliban's demand for restoring Islamic Emirate will not only fail to contribute to security but also lead to a fierce resistance by the anti-Taliban constituency.

Refusing to curb and eliminate corruption from the government will never mobilize Afghan people to assist the government in ensuring security; it will rather generate a gap between the government and people. Excluding Afghan people from decision-making processes and leaning towards monopolization of power and authoritarianism will do no good to achieve peace.

Then, here comes the history of resistance in which some strongest and most influential forces fought the Taliban and the Taliban still nurse grudges against them. They were previously reported to have said that the militants would deal with them on the battleground after they have come to know what to do with president Karzai's government.

President Karzai's government has also lost its backing and it is now presenting alternatives to his corrupt government. It is therefore right to say that appointment of Rabbani as a head of High Peace Council will not take Afghanistan closer to the removal of the clouds of violence from its sky. So it is time to look the other way around and at the other factors and variables.