KABUL: A blood-stained letter has been found in the pocket of the
suicide bomber who assassinated High Peace Council chief Burhanuddin
Rabbani. It was addressed to Mr Rabbani and sent by the Taliban’s
Quetta Shura.
In the letter, obtained by TOLOnews, the Quetta
Shura poses a number of questions and sets out a series of demands
relating to the peace process. The letter was sent by Mawlawi
Enayatullah Makhtoum. He is the brother of Mawlawi Hayatullah who was
the deputy minister of agriculture and livestock during the Taliban
regime. The letter was sent through Mullah Esmatullah, who lives in
Kandahar province, the birth place of the Taliban.
The Islamic
Emirate sees presence of foreign troops, airstrikes, night raids,
oppression, torture and bullying as the main factors of war, the letter
said. It added that contacts to exchange prisoners could never bring
the end of war.
Part of the letter said that vows made by
Pakistan to co-operate in bringing the Taliban were misplaced because
Pakistan was not the Quetta Shura’s representative.
The letter
went on to suggest that the withdrawal of "foreign mercenaries" in
small numbers would not resolve anything and that Jihad would continue
intensively.
Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, an ex-president of
Afghanistan and the head of the peace council, was assassinated on
Tuesday evening at his home. Online
