Taliban are a proxy of Pakistan and its intelligence agency and Afghanistan would never accept to be ruled by Pakistanis, Afghan National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib said on Tuesday.“If we didn’t accept the Soviet rule – superpower – it would be beyond imagination to accept the proxy of a backward country which has a hard time feeding its own people,” Mohib said speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations, a US think tank in New York.
Mohib welcomed US President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel talks with the Taliban saying the Taliban are not ready to make peace with anybody.
“They are ready to take Afghanistan over and return their regime. They had been preparing their victory speeches,” Mohib said.
“The minute a deal was signed; you would have given the keys - or at least from the Taliban’s perspective - to them to rule Afghanistan. And obviously that was not acceptable to the Afghan people it would have not been acceptable to the American people. I think he made the right call,” Mohib said.
He suggested that US negotiations with the Taliban would result only in a civil war in Afghanistan.
Mohib said that the Soviets were much better than the Taliban. “They were not destroying wedding halls; at least they were building infrastructure in our country. But the Afghans would not submit to any kind of enforced ideology or rule on our country.”
He said that the Taliban are finished ideologically, politically and on the war front.
“It is not an endless war. We see an end to it both militarily and an end to it politically. Now the Taliban can choose which they want to see,” Mohib said.