The Taliban’s new stance on peace talks in Afghanistan has poured clean water into the hands of the Americans, and the group’s decision will put Ashraf Ghani and his team under more pressure from the Americans for greater concessions than anyone else.
As all parties to the Afghan peace process prepared to attend the Istanbul Peace Summit, Mohammad Naeem, a spokesman for the Taliban’s political bureau, tweeted last night that the group would not leave until the complete withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. There will be no meeting or conference on peace in Afghanistan.
This tweet from the spokesman of the Taliban Political Bureau is undoubtedly the most important decision of the group’s leaders in the field of peace in Afghanistan. This decision can be considered even more crucial than the Doha peace agreement, but why?
Under the Doha peace agreement, the United States pledged to withdraw all its troops and foreign troops from Afghanistan by early May 2021.
Some analysts assess the holding of the Turkish summit in this regard.
With the initiative of the Istanbul Peace Summit, in fact, for an indefinite period of time, the Americans engaged all sides, including the Taliban, in an almost fruitless game, thereby securing almost all their interests unilaterally and unilaterally.
The American-led media environment in the West and Afghanistan has also shifted in the direction that all public opinion feels that the whole future of Afghanistan is being portrayed at the Istanbul Summit, and if that summit fails, no bright future can be imagined for Afghanistan.
The Taliban announced two days ago that they would not attend the Istanbul meeting on April 16.
This position of the Taliban almost poured clean water on the hands of the Americans, and from now on the Americans seem to be at a crossroads:
1- Or they must withdraw all their forces from Afghanistan on a certain date, otherwise we will face the war and chaos in Afghanistan, which the public opinion also blames the United States for bad faith, violation of the agreement and this bitter headline, and this A major defeat and diplomatic death for the Biden administration will be at the outset.
- The second way, which seems even more probable, is that the Taliban, by making this decision, has no will to fight, and by giving the Americans time to leave, will take extensive concessions from the Americans, and ultimately with the least casualties, their main goal. The end result is the government in Afghanistan.