Iran Press/ Asia: In an interview with Iran Press in Kabul, Mohammad Mohaqiq, Leader of the People's Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan, said: "Afghan government believes in peace and is taking steps in this direction, but its opponents do not accept peace."
Asked why the peace talks were failing, the Afghan president's top security and political adviser stressed that peace in Afghanistan was a foreign project and that the government was happy with the peace plans because it wanted peace.
At the same time, Mohammad Mohaqiq said, the peace talks have not yielded any positive results so far, and that the Taliban's recent readiness for peace talks may be a political tactic.
Those, in Qatar, who speak of peace in Afghanistan disagree with the Taliban militants because the militants have never said they want peace, Mohaqiq added.
Mohammad Mohaqiq stressed that there were different views on peace in Afghanistan, and he personally believed that the Taliban would not make peace because the group's psychological, intellectual, and ideological structure was not for peace. Regarding the recent visits to Kabul and Islamabad by the Iranian Representative to Afghanistan and its impact on the realization of peace in Afghanistan, the Afghan official said the presence of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the negotiations was a positive point.
The US was against Iran's participation in the talks, and the quadripartite talks on Afghanistan did not succeed, Mohaqiq said, adding that the Afghan peace talks should be comprehensive and all effective countries in the region should be present.
US' withdrawal after two-decades of presence in Afghanistan indicates its failure, and of course, the United States itself has admitted the failure, Mohaqiq noted.
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