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Taliban guerrillas welcome Qatar office but fight on

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Kandahar: Taliban fighters on Friday hailed the rebels’ new office in Qatar as evidence of their success on the front lines but vowed to battle on until all US forces leave Afghanistan.

The opening of the office in Qatar was seen as a first step towards a peace deal as the US-led NATO combat mission ends next year, but a furious Kabul accused the rebels of posing as a government-in-exile.

Talk of a meeting between US and Taliban officials has been put on hold, and the US has stressed the office must not be treated as an embassy for the hardliners who were ousted from power in 2001.

“We welcome the opening of the Taliban office in Qatar, and we are happy about it,” Mullah Ehsanullah, a local Taliban fighter in the Zherai district of southern province Kandahar, told.

“With the establishment of this office, we want to hold talks with the international community like an independent and sovereign state. “We are reaching our goals in defeating the US, now we want to free our country from occupation. We want to build our country on our own.” When the Qatar office opened on Tuesday, it used the title of the rebels’ 1996-2001 government, the “Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan” and flew the white Taliban flag — a provocative symbol of oppression to many Afghans. (PTI)

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