Apparently, Taliban accept all offers that are beneficial to them wholeheartedly but do not intent to renounce violence or negotiate peace in Afghanistan with the Afghan government. Hundreds of Taliban fighters, according to government, have joined the peace and integration process.

They have availed monetary rewards and other benefits offered under the process. At the same time, the Taliban want their leaders’ name removed from UN blacklist and the Afghan government has been working to release certain Taliban leaders from prisons in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

All those are acceptable to Taliban but when it comes to peace talks they say, ‘No.’ Taliban have been intensively engaged in human rights abuses but lately, when the Afghan government executed people associated to Taliban and who had been arrested for carrying out terror attacks, the Taliban pronounced this act as violation of human rights.

Thus, the Taliban want all the ‘goods’ for themselves and all the ‘bads’ for others. Now, the Taliban say, they will be participating in the upcoming Paris Conference on Afghanistan. But again, they have rejected talking with Afghan government representatives about ending the war in Afghanistan.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement on Monday that the militants had accepted an invitation to attend the conference, which French government sources described as an internal Afghan colloquium on the future of the country. “The Taliban in this conference will express their stance to the world community and we will send two representatives,” he said. “We must clarify that no talks with anyone are involved.

This is only a research conference and the representatives of the Taliban are attending the conference only to address directly the world about their views face to face.” President Karzai said recently that any meeting on the future of Afghanistan was appreciable.

But he emphasized that such meetings and negotiations must take place inside the country. Despite that, the Paris Conference is being deemed as important. For the first time Taliban will be participating in such a conference since their government was toppled back in 2001.

The conference will be a platform for Taliban to share their views about the future of Afghanistan when there will no heavy presence of foreign troops in the country. But for Taliban views to be accepted by the people of Afghanistan, they must stop shedding blood of innocent people and do not pose threats to the development and reconstruction process of Afghanistan any more.