ISLAMABAD: Afghan Parliamentarian Huma Sultani has said that Bonn
Conference on Afghanistan’s future has lost its usefulness without
Pakistan’s participation.
In an exclusive interview with Online
on phone from Kabul, the member of Wolesi Jirga, or Lower House of the
parliament from Ghazni province, said that the Bonn Conference will fail
to produce any result for peace and stability in Afghanistan as the
parties to the conflict including Taliban and Hizb-e-Islami have
rejected it.
“Now when Pakistan, an important stakeholder of
peace in the region, is also boycotting the US-backed conference on
Afghanistan in Bonn, its failure is inevitable,” she added.
She
said that in fact the international community is not serious in peace in
Afghanistan and the conference was only called in to forward agenda of
US in the region. “Europe is passing through economic recession what
they can donate for future in Afghanistan, they can hardly bear expenses
of their own soldiers,” she further said while commenting on post 2014
support by EU to Afghanistan.
The parliamentarian claimed that
only she has been in contact with Taliban Supreme Commander Mullah Omer,
who is ready for peace talks. But the Karzai’s administration and his
foreigner supporters are not serious in holding peace talks.
“They
some time urges Pakistan to help in peace talks. None of the Pkistani
official including the prime minister and the military leader ship has
access to Omer for the last one year and I again say that only I have
contact with him. Even top leader of Haqqani network cannot meet him,
though they may have some telephonic contacts,” she claimed.
Sultani
said that solution to Afghanistan is simple and that is a point where
all stakeholders within Afghanistan could agree. She suggested a
government of the neutral, sincere and Afghan patriot government. “This
suggestion is even acceptable to Mullah Omer. The current government is
not sincere; it is corrupt and stool of foreigners. Leaders of Northern
Alliance, personalities of former Mujahideen, Taliban and the present
officials are not acceptable. There should be entire new people who can
go for peace,” the parliamentarian said.
The member of Wolesi
jirga said that she was making efforts for peace by bargaining peace
between President Karzai and Mullah Omer but useless as Karzai was not
serious for peace talks.
She blamed that the government in Afghanistan has banned free media in the country and her voice is not given coverage now.
“Now
I want to visit Pakistan, Iran, Russia, China and other regional
countries to interact with media for hearing my urges for peace. And I
already submitted my passport to Pakistani embassy in Kabul for visiting
Peshawar and Islamabad. But, so far I was not given permission,” she
said.
Pakistan has boycotted the Bonn conference as a protest
against NATO raids against two Pakistan posts in Mohmand Agency along
Afghan border killing 24 Pakistani soldiers and wounding 16 others.
After the attack Pakistan blocked supply route to NATO in Afghanistan
via Pakistan and ordered US to vacate Shamsi airbase in Pakistan’s
Balochistan. Online
