The Taliban never believed in a political solution, Amrullah Saleh said. File
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Former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh said peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban had become “the beginning of the end” for the country.
Saleh, who recently declared himself acting president of the country, also said the U.S. and NATO should have kept 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. “But now that they have not done so and are paying the price,” he added, Sputnik reported quoting the German newspaper Der Spiegel.
“The intra-Afghan dialogue was flawed from the beginning, as the Taliban never believed in a political solution to the decades-long conflict,” Saleh said.
He also called for the international recognition of the pocket of resistance in Panjshir and to provide him with moral and political support, Sputnik reported.
Panjshir fighters have prevented the capture of the region by Taliban terrorists by firing a heavy machine gun into a deep valley from the top of the rocky mountain.
These fighters are from the National Resistance Front, the strongest force left after the siege of Kabul by the Taliban.
The valley is located in the Hindu Kush Mountains, about 90 miles north of Kabul. The Taliban have not been able to catch this major obstacle.