US begins resurrection of Taliban on exit from Afghanistan

Talibaan Opening Office in Qatar resurrection
Jafria News – 05 Janaury, 2012

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JNN 04 Jan 2012 Kabul : Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has agreed to the opening of a liaison office by the Taliban militant group in Qatar, his office has announced. While The United States is set to release several Taliban leaders from the Guantanamo Bay prison after Washington struck a deal with the militant group agreeing to their opening of an office in Qatar.

“Afghanistan agrees with the negotiations between the United States and the Taliban, which will lead to the establishment of an office in Qatar,” Karzai’s office said in a statement on Wednesday.

According to the statement, the talks could save the country from “conflict, conspiracy and the killings of innocent people.”
The statement comes after American and Taliban officials made a deal, in which the Taliban agreed to open an office in Qatar in return for the release of several high-ranking Taliban figures.

Under pressure from the White House, Karzai agreed to a US proposal to let the militants establish an office outside Afghanistan.

The Afghan president strongly rejected the idea previously, saying that he was not consulted with about the potential venue of a Taliban office.

The US-led war on Afghanistan was launched under the pretext of toppling the Taliban regime. Now after a decade, Washington has decided to hold negotiations with the militants.

Former Taliban Interior Minister Mullah Khair Khowa and senior Taliban military commander Noorullah Noori are among the Taliban officials, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.

The US may release “high-risk detainee” and former Taliban Deputy Defense Minister Mohammed Fazl, held at Guantanamo since 2002, but hand him over to Qatar, the newspaper said.