Former Afghan Vice-President Amrullah Saleh, on Monday, said that Washington and the Taliban enjoy a “hidden alliance”. Saleh urged the wise politicians of Afghanistan to end the wait-and-see period and resort to active armed resistance.
Saleh’s call for Afghan politicians to armed resistance comes two weeks after Abdul Rashid Dostum, another former Afghan vice-president called for talks with the Taliban.
The former Afghan vice-president described the Doha agreement as a “conspiracy to hire the Taliban as a geopolitical tool”.
He called the Taliban a threat to every regional actor, except Pakistan.
US President Joe Biden's unexpected statement about the importance of the Taliban to prevent the threat of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan has been met with wide-ranging reactions from Afghan politicians. Among others, Rahmatullah Nabil, the former head of the Afghanistan intelligence agency, compared the Taliban to Russian mercenary fighters, the Wagner group, and called them "Islamic Wagner".
The Taliban has been against any power-sharing arrangements with other political groups since taking over Afghanistan in 2021 and has asked Afghan political leaders to return to Afghanistan and live as ordinary citizens.
