Taliban's policies for Afghanistan

[marwat]

wrora [MENTION=1058]Bengal_Tiger[/MENTION] you seems like very much hyper about Taliban. and your post shows how much west propaganda you have absorbed. Afghan taliban leadership is not like that of TTP or IS. the foot soldier are thugs like that of TTP, but the leadership and senior commander are not extremist in nature, neither do they follow wahabisam or salafisam.
there is a very good documetary about an american who visited Afghanistan in taliban era.
Journeys.to.the.Ends.of.the.Earth.Vol1of3.1of4.Afg hanistan
watch it and decide for yourself.

[Shamlawar Khurasani]

all of this make a good sense until you meet a taliban foot soldier and i am sure you never meet one. i am from the area where haqqani derive a good share of their foot soldier and some middle leadership.our society is very much influenced by them and Afghan taliban which is now decreasing day by day.i can recall two of my childhood friends, both were used in suicide mission in Afghanistan. my second cousin in our family have seven years of experience fighting infidels in Afghanistan.
none of them share your narrative, they share the narrative of the likes of Zaid hamid and pakistan establishment. they says they are fighting to bring sharia and to avenge tajik and northern alliance for their crimes against pashtun on daily basis. and then they will start fantasizing taliban rule, peace and prosperity and how much afghan enjoyed previous taliban rule. there is reason my friend taliban are called pakistan proxies although pakistan don't enjoy much influence over them, taliban serve them, their interest coincides.
taliban is not a symbol of resistance like west media and pakistani media portray it. taliban shows the greedy and cruel nature of Afghan. they want power. everybody do that.

I have explained elswhere what drives people towards militancy. I know many Taliban footsoldiers personally. I know the kind of people you are talking about.

You assume that what I have said doesn't reflect reality of people you have met. Your assumption is based on a fallacy: I wan't discussing the state of mind of footsoldiers. I was explaining why Taliban don't have a policy to run and govern Afghanistan.

By pointing out to your anecdotal account of what taliban foot soldiers are like you are proving my point. Thats exactly what I am trying to explain. Taliban draw from grievances of people and some basic ideas of Islam & Justice. Which is all fine but not enough to plot a plan for running a civil service, education, economy, foreign affairs etc etc.

[marwat]

Taliban not against women in politics: Shinwari

[MENTION=1058]Bengal_Tiger[/MENTION] i hope this will answer many of your questions
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Taliban assured participants of a two-day informal meeting in Qatar that they were not against women’s participation in politics, an Afghan delegation member said on Monday.

The two days of informal talks on Saturday and Sunday were organized in Doha by a Canada-based organization, Pushwag Council that works for solution to international conflicts.

An eight-member Taliban delegation and a 20-member Afghan government delegation took part in the research conference titled “Afghan dialogue” aiming at ending the long-running conflict in Afghanistan.

The Afghan delegation included members of the High Peace Council, lawmakers, politicians and civil society activists. A delegation of the Gulbadin Hekmatyar-led Hezb-i-Islami of Afghanistan (HIA) also participated in the conference.

Malalai Shinwari, who was part of the Afghan delegation, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban representative, Abbas Stanikzai, twice insisted on women’s rights in his remarks at the conference.

She said the Taliban representatives spoke about women’s rights in their opening remarks and then she (Malalai) talked about women’s rights in Afghanistan and then again the Taliban representatives, including Stanikzai, talked about women’s rights.

Later, she said, the Taliban representatives held talks with female participants on the sidelines of the meeting and took them into confidence about women’s rights.

Malalai and two more Afghan women, Leena and Woghma, who serve as defence lawyers for Taliban detainees, took part in the talks.

Malalai Shinwari said Abbas Stanikzai told her that they could not deny women rights enshrined in Islam like choosing life partner, education and the right to work. She said Stanikzai said the Taliban were not against women’s participation in politics.

She said the Taliban leaders lashed out at the Afghan government for the rights it had given to the Afghan women. Stanikzai asked what the Afghan government did with Shurkia Barakzai, a lawmaker from Kabul. He said Barakzai was first appointed the head of the newly-created electoral reforms commission and then suddenly removed her.

He repeatedly mentioned Farkhunda, a 27-year-old woman, who was lynched by a mob of men in Kabul. Stanikzai said women in Kabul said the gains made over the past 13 years should be preserved. “What kind of gains they are when a woman is lynched in the heart of Kabul by a handful of goons,” asked the Taliban representative.

Shinwari said Stanikzai acknowledged the Taliban had committed some mistakes during their regime like banning women’s education, which he said was their urgency. Stanikzai said the Taliban wanted to protect women and they lacked financial resources at the time to provide women education.

“Stanikzai told me that women can do any job, they can be doctors and engineers,” Shinwari said. She said a Taliban representative led prayers on the first day of the conference and she also stood in lines behind him.

“I told the prayer leader that I am worshiping for myself not because I afraid of you,” said Shinwari, who told the story of a mother to the Taliban.

“I told them that there is a woman in our village. One of her sons was a member of the Taliban and he got killed and her second son who was a policeman also got killed. For the mother, her sons were important not what they chose for themselves.”

“After this conversation when we were sitting to drink tea, a Taliban representative, Jan Mohammad Madani, came to me and said my story made him cry.”

Shinwari said before reaching Qatar, she had a different picture of the Taliban in her mind. “Ghairat Baheer of the HIA and other former jihadis were also present, but I found the Taliban like others or even gentler.”

She said Abbas Stanikzai told her he was tired of the war and wanted his son and daughter live in a peaceful environment.

“You were the ones who made us wear buqa. I was afraid thinking you would talk to us or not, but they laughed and said how did I find them,” she said of her conversation with the Taliban representatives.

Shinwari said she told the Taliban leaders that the women of Afghanistan bore the brunt of the conflict despite the fact they did not fight, thus deserving peace.

She said the Taliban leaders claimed the Afghan government was not committed to peace and insisted on the constitution of the dialogue process. It seemed such a gathering would take place in a month’s time to further overcome the trust deficit between the two sides, she said.

http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2015/05/04/taliban-not-against-women-politics-shinwari

[Shamlawar Khurasani]

this shinwari woman is a real witch. She said "you made us wear burqa''. I wouldn't even talk to an ignorant woman like that.