The peace talks between Afghanistan’s government and Taliban will not bring any positive results, Mohammad Amin Karim, a France-based Senior Political Board Member of Afghanistan's Hezb-e Islami Party said in an exclusive interview with Eurasia Diary.

The recent meeting on Afghan-Taliban talks organized by Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs was the second one of this kind, he said.

It was just a stage for Taliban to give their conditions and in this gathering, they showed the precondition for negotiations, according to Amin Karim.

They started to ask for freedom of their prisoners, removal from blacklists, but these are not conditions but preconditions for negotiations, he noted.

“Hezb-e Islami Party is also supportive of disposition of Taliban and we think that that it would be a key solution for Afghanistan to recover our independence and freedom of people, movement, speech, the national sovereignties,” he said.

“If you ask me what will be the end of these negotiations, I would say that the positions of the two parties - Afghan government and Taliban - are so far that I don’t think this will cause any positive statement in this end,” Amin Karim said.

He recalled that almost 18 months ago, during the first meeting, the position of Taliban was clear.

“So the Pugwash conference was only a microphone to allow Taliban to give their position at that particular time. The purpose [of this meeting] was to know what will be the position of Taliban this time,” he said.

He believes that there is a lack of confidence between the Afghan government and Taliban.

“On the other hand, I am not sure that the Afghan government asks for peace,” he said.

“I think that both people in Afghanistan and Pakistan are asking for the peace, but unfortunately, there are a lot of forces who do not want the peace,” he said.
Like Taliban, most of the people inside the Kabul regime will not ask for peace because war is a suitable situation for them, according to him.

What will help is the inter-Afghan negotiations not with the US or China who ask for their own interests, he said.

Regarding the statement of Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani about crushing the Daesh, he noted that the question of Daesh is political, because some Afghan groups are trying to keep their army and that is why, they are making the Daesh problem a big one.

In Afghanistan, there is no a Daesh problem right now, but there are prisons of this group of course, he said.

“I think if we solve the problem of Afghan regime, Taliban and Daesh won’t be a big problem,” he said.