During the Pugwash Conference in Qatar, Taliban along with Afghan Government attempted to characterize a new political picture to the international community. The Islamic Emirate of Taliban committed to respect the Freedom of Expression, Women Rights, good relationship with neighboring countries and international community in term of mutual respect. Moreover, they accepted to honor the pagan organization of United Nation, the neutral Islamic Conference, and International Law which do not contradict Islamic and national values according to their perspective. Furthermore, they claimed to prevent civil casualties as well as added to protect public institutions and national organizations.
The Islamic Emirates of Taliban pledged as they are not going to harm other countries and nations, nor they permit others to utilize Afghanistan for their own profit. Taliban demand to obtain particular set of aims: having a specific office or address, clearing their members’ name from black lists, releasing their members from prisons, and stopping poisonous media publicizing against them.
Taliban had emphasized earlier that peace was not possible unless American forces leave Afghanistan, and do not negotiate with the puppet government of America. That is why for the first time in 2010 CE, Taliban under the command of their leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, got ready to discuss the issue with America and sought series of attempts to establish mutual trust, but they gradually laid off their targeted aims.
During this process, America and NATO were announcing ideological conditions; Mujahiddin must separate from Al Qaeda, conform to a secular constitution of Afghanistan, and put their weapons down. So for the first time Taliban held a direct negotiation with Afghan government in Mari, Pakistan; but during this meeting, Afghan government revealed the death of Taliban’s leader, as a result Taliban conflicted against each other for Homage (Bai’at) and fragmented into different groups thus the peace process was indisputably stopped.
In addition, in the Conference of Heart of Asia, America, China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan established a four way coordinating committee to initiate peace process with Taliban as well as they held three following meetings in Islamabad and Kabul to enact appropriate ways for negotiating with Taliban and each time they invited Taliban to discuss peace process with Afghanistan. But Taliban still has been boycotting this process. In contrast to this attempt, Pugwash International Organization held a meeting with some influential Afghans and Taliban authorities regarding peace process in Qatar without Afghanistan’s formal presence, but Afghan government denied to show its formal attendance in this conference. Consequently, these vicarious peace processes apparently resemble the vicarious war against the Muslim Ummah.
According to the peace process and presented conditions, Taliban are gradually going to give up their former position against colonialists and invaders, and this is indeed an obvious treachery to martyrs’ blood and orphans’ tears. It must be clear that the negotiations only have effective results when there exists a powerful state and strong army behind them; and this strong army is not behind Taliban, but rather exists behind America and NATO. The fact is that if pagans (Kuffar) do not obtain their interests from peace process, they will definitely gain them through war.
It is worth mentioning that Islamic Emirate was a national government since it was established for the first time, but the homage of other international Mujahiddin with Mullah Mohammad Omar, occurrence of September 11th, and American propaganda against them represented a fictitious picture of Islamic State to the world. Hence, this government had mutual national and diplomatic relations with Pakistan, United Arabic Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia as well as had sent a formal ambassador to the United Nations. These are sufficient reasons for lowering Taliban Emirates from the legitimate position of an Islamic State. In fact, their commitment was apparent from the beginning in term of respecting illegal thoughts such as freedom of expression, women rights, relation and respect with other pagan countries, the pagan organization of United Nation, Islamic Conference and …
It needs mentioning that due to Taliban’s political ignorance and Usama bin Laden’s deep passion toward military campaign have helped America and NATO to utilize them as a device for the war they had started against Muslims. Unfortunately in spite of sacrifices of Mujahid people of Afghanistan, Taliban has been descended from the position of the Islamic State because their demands and commitments are not different from traitor and oppressive governments such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, Islamic Ummah including Taliban are not in the level to take position against pagans like our prophet Mohammad Peace be upon had taken in Hudaibiah Peace against Quraish; on the other hand, they are in the level likewise our prophet who was offered big promises in exchange of dismissing call for Islam in Maken period. Our Prophet ﷺ not only rejected their proposals, but also insisted that he would call for Islam or die for this purpose. We are hopeful that armed militants shall not be trapped to the hand of Kuffar under the pretext of peace.
Saifullah Mustanir
Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Afghanistan
Written for Ar-Rayah Newspaper – Issue 64