Kabul: Describing the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan as a “difficult and complicated” process, Pakistan’s envoy to Afghanistan Mansoor Ahmed Khan said on Friday that the Taliban and the country’s political leadership are hopeful of a consensus on it.
talking to geo news From Kabul, Mansoor Ahmed said that engagement with the Afghan Taliban was ongoing as part of the peace process for the past two years and that the major concern of the international community is that only an inclusive government can ensure lasting peace in the war-torn country.
Ever since the Ashraf Ghani government was ousted and the Taliban took power, efforts have been made and discussions are ongoing between Taliban and Afghan leaders, including former presidents Hamid Karzai, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Gulbadin Hekmatyar, who To form an inclusive government. .
Asked whether he is hopeful of establishing an inclusive government in Afghanistan, he said, “I have spoken to both sides and my response is that they look forward to moving closer to that objective in the next few days.” And we are also hopeful that both sides will try to achieve this, but it will be a difficult and complicated process.”
Sharing his assessment of the obstacles, the Pakistani envoy said this is difficult because Afghanistan has complex ethnic dimensions, while the Taliban call themselves representatives of the Pashtuns, non-Pashtun groups as well.
“And when we talk about an inclusive government through political settlement, a bigger issue is what kind of constitution is acceptable. Both sides have different opinions. Human rights are also an important issue on which to deal. Discussions are yet to take place and the inclusive element also needs to be addressed.”
Mansoor Ahmed Khan, who met with Afghan leaders in the past few days after the Taliban takeover, said he called it a complicated process because it was difficult to bring all these forces at one point.
He was also asked whether the Taliban was showing flexibility in the talks.
To this, he said, “The talks with the Taliban in the last two years are very clear and the aspirations of the international community were conveyed to Telban that an inclusive political system with the rule of law that respects human rights, women’s rights as well and accordingly the wishes of the people of Afghanistan will be acceptable to the world.”
The envoy said, in his understanding, the Taliban now realize that concerns were raised after the special government was established in the 1990s.
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