Taliban will be Resisted, They are playing with talks
By Our Correspondent Abbas Daiyar
KABUL – Afghanistan National Front (ANF) has said the current government has lack of credibility and political legitimacy to sign the Strategic Partnership Document with the United States and it should be postponed until the next Presidential elections to be held in 2014.
Talking in a press conference on Saturday, March 17, 2012 National Front spokesman Faizullah Zaki said that they support the Strategic Partnership agreement with the United States. He added that the current Government has failed the people of Afghanistan and it does not represent majority, therefore the agreement should be postponed until the next elections.
Mr. Zaki further said that the current stance of the Government on strategic partnership agreement with the US is more of a political bargaining for the interests of a circle in the Presidential Palace, who do not represent all the people of Afghanistan.
In response to a question about Taliban's suspension of peace talks with the US, Faizullah Zaki said, "National Front believes the current process of talks is a ridiculous play. Taliban have never been serious about peace. They continue bloodshed and terror. The eventual fate of talks with the current process will be utter failure, unless all political forces of Afghanistan are not involved."
Zaki said that if the Taliban believe they can impose themselves on the people of Afghanistan by force, they are living in fantasy and they will be strongly resisted for defense of democratic values.
National Front is an opposition block which includes former Vice President Ahmad Zia Massoud, leader of Junbish Party General Abdur Rashid Dostum, Haji Aman, the head of an alliance of eastern tribes and Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq head of Peoples' Unity Party of Afghanistan. They have been critical of the current process of talks with the Taliban.
Other important opposition groups including National Coalition and Rights and Justice Party have also strongly criticized the Karzai Administration regarding the process of talks with the Taliban.
Political analysts believe opposition political parties, particularly the National Front and National Coalition, might form a larger alliance in the wake of withdrawal of international forces in 2014, talks with the Taliban and the prevailing uncertainty of the situation beyond departure of the US and NATO troops.