News:

According to the Islamic Republic of Iran's semiofficial Fars News agency report on 1^st June 2013, a Taliban political delegation visited Iran. The delegation headed by Tayeb Aagha from the political office of Taliban in Doha, held meetings with the Iranian security officials. The source further adds that the representatives of the Taliban movement particularly Higher Education Minister Muhammad Allah Nomani and Maydan Wardak Governor Shams-ud-Din Pahlawan during Taliban era; attended the latest Conference of Ulema and Islamic Awakening in the Iranian capital. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, the Taliban spokesperson confirmed the news released by Fars News Agency. He further expressed that the meeting was organized to discuss bilateral issues. In the meantime, Iranian embassy in Kabul has denied the report and refused any kind of discussions between Iran's Intelligence officials and the Taliban. The Pakistani Express Tribune Newspaper also said that Iran is trying hard to pave the way and ensure its role in post-2014 Afghanistan.

Comment:

The Taliban stance against the NATO-American occupation of Afghanistan is an Islamic stance in itself; this is why they gained much popularity and support among ordinary Afghans across the country. On the ground, however, the high rate of civilian causalities and their silence on attacks launched by intelligence and security agencies are two points that damaged their status. Moreover, the Taliban try to make relations with the countries that were directly involved in moving off their government. These governments, e.g. Pakistan even submitted many Al Qaida and Taliban leaders to the US and NATO forces. Pakistan's Army and Intelligence Service support to the invasion of Afghanistan is obviously clear to all, meanwhile, some Iranian higher officials also flattery have reminded the US many times that the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq without Iran's assistance was impossible.

In addition to this the reason why U.S. had launched its military onslaught against Taliban was their support of the "terrorists" and refusal to hand over Al-Qaida head Sheikh Osama Bin Laden. However, today the same U.S. is siding with the criminals of Hezbollah, Islamic Revolution Iranian Revolutionary Guards "Sepah e Pasdaran Inqilab Islami" and Iraqi forces, in their savagery against the innocent civilians in Syria and Iraq all will be forgotten by Taliban. Moreover, a political dialogue and amity with Iran also dents the credibility of Taliban. On the other hand the visit of Taliban's delegation to Iran from Qatar, indicates that is has the assent of U.S. because opening an office in Qatar, where U.S. has the biggest military base ‘Al-Adeed", without U.S. consent is not possible, as U.S. wants to keep an eye on the whole process.

The role of Turkey, Saudi, Pakistan and Qatar in the hot issues of the Islamic Ummah is in fact the instrument of U.S. and UK to micromanage the affairs through these puppets. For instance if we look at the situation in Syria, that too is taken care of by Turkey, Jordan and Qatar. Moreover, the recent evidences suggests that the Syrian issue has transferred from Qatar to Saudi which has a major role in the Syrian conflict using as a U.S's base. U.S. is also using Iran to incite sectarian conflict in the region, like in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syrian.

In all these three major issues, Iran and U.S. shares the same opinion and using the same taxi stand, though there may be some difference between the styles and resources used by Iran and other countries like Saudi, Gulf and Pakistan.  U.S. is now using the sectarian card of Shia and Sunni to create a rift in the region and as a result colonize both of them, by using the agent rulers. Besides, the visit of Taliban's delegation to Iran is damaging the Afghan government position but at the same time proves the point that Taliban has withdrawn from its claimant previous position of representing the Muslim Ummah and converted to just an Afghan resistance movement, that doesn't consider Syrian and Iraqi struggle as theirs, that's why they are doing all these diplomatic visits. This also indicates a major shift in the policy, which in fact is a political suicide for Taliban, both from Islamic and political point of view. Our beloved Prophet (saw) said in one of his Hadith:" لا يلدغ المؤمن من جحر واحد مرتين" "A Believer is not stung twice by the same hole", but it seems that Taliban has not taken any heed from this Hadith; they are repeating the same mistakes they have committed in their previous era of reply on the Saudi, Pakistani and UAE governments, who are U.S. Pawns.

Taliban should take heed from the previous deceptions they faced at the hands of these governments and should stop betraying the blood of the Mujahedeen, so that the signs of hypocrisy should not come in them, from which Allah (swt) has warned us.

(( أَوَلاَ يَرَوْنَ أَنَّهُمْ يُفْتَنُونَ فِي كُلِّ عَامٍ مَّرَّةً أَوْ مَرَّتَيْنِ ثُمَّ لاَ يَتُوبُونَ وَلاَ هُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ ))

"Do they not see how once or twice every year they are tried? Yet still they neither repent nor remember." [at-Tawba:126]

Saifullah Mustanir

Kabul - Wilayah Afghanistan