The Taliban mentioned on Sunday they had been dedicated to peace talks, including they wished a “genuine Islamic system” in Afghanistan that might make provisions for ladies’s rights consistent with cultural traditions and spiritual guidelines.
The assertion got here amid sluggish progress within the talks between the hardline Islamic group and Afghan authorities representatives in Qatar and as violence rises dramatically across the nation forward of the withdrawal of overseas forces by September 11.
Officials have raised considerations over the stalling negotiations and have mentioned the Taliban has not but submitted a written peace proposal that could possibly be used as a place to begin for substantive talks.
“We understand that the world and Afghans have queries and questions about the form of the system to be established following withdrawal of foreign troops,” mentioned Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the pinnacle of the Taliban’s political workplace, within the assertion, including the problems had been finest addressed throughout negotiations in Doha.
“A genuine Islamic system is the best means for solution of all issues of the Afghans,” he mentioned.
“Our very participation in the negotiations and its support on our part indicates openly that we believe in resolving issues through (mutual) understanding.”
He added that ladies and minorities could be protected and diplomats and NGO staff would be capable of work securely.
“We take it on ourselves as a commitment to accommodate all rights of citizens of our country, whether they are male or female, in the light of the rules of the glorious religion of Islam and the noble traditions of the Afghan society,” he mentioned, including that ‘facilities would be provided’ for ladies to work and be educated.
It was not clear whether or not the Taliban would permit girls to hold out public roles and whether or not workplaces and faculties could be segregated by gender.
The group’s spokesman didn’t instantly to answer request for remark.
In May, U.S. intelligence analysts launched an evaluation that the Taliban “would roll back much” of the progress made in Afghan girls’s rights if the Islamist extremists regained nationwide energy.
Before being ousted by the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, the Taliban imposed a harsh model of Islamic rule that included barring ladies from faculty and ladies from working exterior their houses and prohibiting them from being in public with out a male family member.
