Tuesday February 9, 2016
Kabul (BNA) The third round of the QCG meeting held in Pakistan’s capital city Islamabad has accompanied verbal meme among both the Afghans including experts, waiting for the final round slated for February 23, in Kabul to result in a free violence country.
The Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) meetings involving Afghanistan, Pakistan, the U.S. and China to restore a lasting peace in the war-torn country, received optimism from both the Afghans and the political experts, saying the third round held in the neighboring Pakistan could be different with those concluded unproductive in the past. The next and fourth round is expected to be held in Kabul, where after at least one week, both the Afghan government and the Taliban representatives are expected to set a visa vise peace discussion; a final effort could collect optimisms from the people and the political analysts.
The government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has insisted on any peace deal with the government armed opposition to be set without their preconditions may negate the women rights and the last nearly one and half a decade’s achievements.
Jawid Kohistani, a political and military analyst believed that the fresh deal related to peace talks was expected to reach a positive consequence as this round seems something different with those in the past, as the QCG member countries vowed to do their best to convince the Taliban to sit around a negotiation table or face a repressing respond from them.
“They (the four members) have done their responsibility for what they had assumed to help the process get success and that the Taliban’s representatives to arrange a face-to-face peace talks with the government, under a categorical Afghan lead process,” said Kohistani who added the Pakistan’s view had changed much for peace in its neighbor further than the past. Another expert, Muradi expressed a strong optimism over the ongoing series of the peace talks through the meetings of the quadrilateral coordination meetings, saying this wouldn’t be empty of a positive result. He said something caused deadlock to peace deals would be helped tackled through the meetings of the QCG, while in Kabul’s round, both Afghan and Pakistani sides should talk on how to remove those cases brought stalemates before peace success in Afghanistan.
A number of Afghan parliament members, while expressing pleasure over the peace talks going on in the QCG meetings, but once again asked the Pakistan to honestly step up in this field and do its best to restore a lasting peace in both countries. But, Chief of the political Rawand-e Sabz (Green Trend) party, Amrullah Saleh is doubtful on the way, the Pakistani side was going on, to help peace result positive. “Once in the past, the Pakistani side drew the Taliban to the negotiation table, but soon they changed their perspective, increasingly continued its interference in the Afghanistan internal affairs and the Taliban resumed harsher violence against the people of Afghanistan,” said Saleh, who frankly added: “No Taliban within six months, if Pakistan was not supporting the militants.” Afghanistan’s foreign ministry’s spokesman, Shekib Mustaghni during a press conference said the Taliban’s representatives can offer their conditions, but, once the peace talks officially starts, the government would focus on its main peace target.
In the past, the Afghan government has said peace negotiation would also involve the country’s constitution, but some articles like: Islam as the main Afghan religion and the rights and requirements of the entire Afghans would be something unchangeable. Some Afghan citizens expressed doubt over the Pakistani honesty to take practical step in peace process success between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban. Insurgency in Afghanistan, is controlled from Pakistan and the Pakistani ISI is behind all disasters in the country, said a Kabul citizen, Ahmad Jawad who added Pakistan would have no option unless to reach an agreement with the government of Afghanistan on an inclusive work for restoration of lasting peace and security in Afghanistan, as any successful process for peace would not only be in the interest of Afghanistan, but it would send a good and promising message to the region and the world. The QCG met for the third time in the neighboring country’s capital, Islamabad, where the member representatives talked on a successful peace process roadmap hoping the fourth and final round expected to be held in Kabul, would pave the way for direct peace talks between the government and the government armed oppositions representatives. Suraya Raiszada
