Removal of sign at Doha office threatens talks: Taliban
A Taliban spokesman says that some within the Afghan
militant movement want to suspend a nascent peace process with the
government over a disputed sign in their newly opened office.
Shaheen Suhail told The Associated Press
on Saturday that the movement is infuriated over Kabul’s demands that
they remove a sign that identifies their new office in Qatar as the
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Qatar removed the sign on Wednesday.
Suhail said the Taliban have negotiated for three years under that name and were blindsided by the objections.
“There
is an internal discussion right now and much anger about it but we have
not yet decided what action to take,” Suhail said in a telephone
interview. “But I think it weakens the process from the very beginning.”
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