Senior Taliban Leader and member of Qatar Negotiating Team, Shahabuddin Dilawar Thursday lauded Afghans resilience against the superpower. He claimed that the history repeated itself when Afghans did not bow before anyone and defeated the lone superpower of the world and its allied forces of NATO.
Afghan won the fight between oppressors and oppressed
While speaking at Lowya Jirga where Masharan and political leaders from Qunduze province participated and presented their full support to the upcoming new government, he appreciated Afghan resilience against the superpower and said,
“All was possible owing to the sacrifices of thousands of those Afghans who laid down their lives to liberate their country from the foreign occupation forces”
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Shahabuddin Dilawar, who also served as Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia during the first government of Taliban said it was a fight between oppressors and oppressed in which the former defeated the latter.
Congratulating members of the Jirga, he said, this great victory was impossible without the support of the people of Afghanistan, adding, our fighters were on the ground but people from cross-sections of the society either living in Afghanistan or abroad supported us in this Jihad (religious war).
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Afghan bravery defeated the infidels’ nefarious designs
The Taliban leader said it was a defeat for the entire infidel and Afghans had once again repeated their history for not bowing their heads before anyone. By referring to the war-torn Syria, he said that the infidel wanted to convert Afghanistan into Syria tear the country into divisions but the brave people of Afghanistan defeated their nefarious designs and by the grace of Allah Almighty Afghanistan was intact and now the foreign forces were leaving it. This confirms Afghan resilience against superpower and their desire to run the country with a cohesive approach, he further explicated.
Emphasis on “inclusive political settlement”
The Taliban leader said peace had been restored in Afghanistan and since August 15, when the Taliban took over Kabul, not a single case of violence had been reported from any part of the country, adding in the previous two governments the law and order situation in Afghanistan was pathetic.
He said peace had been restored but great challenges were ahead and all the Afghan communities collectively would work for peace and stability of the country and putting this country on the road to progress and prosperity.
“No single group can rule Afghanistan. The new government will be the representative government of all the Afghan communities and all will work for putting the war-ravaged country on the road to progress and prosperity,” he added.
Former member of the Afghan parliament, Qari Din Muhammad Hanif speaking to the Jirga said no one would be allowed to impose war on the Afghan’s soil and we all would collectively work to find a political solution to the Afghan issue.
“When the oppression of Firoa was increased God sent Musa AS,” he said and added the people of Afghanistan had suffered a lot in this long war but at last defeated their enemy.
Member of Rehbari Shoora Mula Abdul Haq Waseek urged participants of the Jirga to forget the past and collectively work for a better future in Afghanistan.
Need for collective thinking to run the country
He said all communities in Afghanistan were respectable and instead of personal thinking, collective thinking would have to be adopted to run the affairs of the country. And Afghans resilience against superpower will be further seen in how unitedly they run the country.
He said maintaining the law and order and protection of life and property was the state’s responsibility and after the restoration of peace and stability, we all would work for the economic uplift of the country.
About Panjsher’s situation, he said, we wanted to resolve the issue with talks and had offered them a peace agreement, adding if talks were failed then we would form our next line of action.
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