KABUL – DMutasim Agha Jan, once the Taliban regime’s finance minister, toldTOLOnews that both sides had agreed on “some most important issues”.
Mutasim Agha Jan told TOLOnews that the talks between US and Taliban lastweek had reached a very sensitive point and both sides agreed on importantissues or are close to reaching agreements and will share the developmentswith their leaders.
He said Taliban needed an authorized person to deal with the talks and thatthe group’s political responsibilities were given to Mullah Abdul GhaniBaradar by Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of Taliban.
Agha Jan said both sides have made a decision to sign the agreements at ameeting in the near future adding that the agreements will be shared withthe Afghan people.
He said the Qatar meeting had been a very important and productive meeting.
But Khalilzad said on Saturday evening, after six days of talks in Qatar,that they had not agreed on anything.
“Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, and “everything” mustinclude an intra-Afghan dialogue and comprehensive ceasefire,” he said in atweet.
He said that “we have a number of issues left to work out”.
Agha Jan meanwhile said Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is a popular figureamong the Taliban and that he has been appointed as head of the group’spolitical affairs section so as to carry on talks with the US.
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Baradar was appointed as head of Taliban’s Qatar office on January 24 tolead the talks. Before Baradar, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai had been headof the Qatar office.
The appointment of Baradar as head of the Qatar office has raised hopes forpeace in Afghanistan and according to analysts, he has for long supportedthe notion of peace.
Baradar was released from a Pakistan prison in October last year.
Baradar, also known as Mullah Baradar Akhund or Mullah Brother, is aco-founder of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. He was Mullah MohammedOmar, the founding leader of the Taliban’s deputy.
Omar’s death was confirmed in October 2016.
Baradar was captured in Pakistan by a team of Pakistan’s intelligenceagency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and US’s Central IntelligenceAgency (CIA) officers in February 2010
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