Afghan Women’s News Agency – The second Vienna meeting of Afghan political figures opposed to the Taliban began on Monday morning (April 24, 2023) in Vienna, the capital of Austria.
In this meeting, at least 30 political activists, representatives of political and civil movements, former officials and former members of the government and parliament, diplomats and journalists, including Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance Front, and a number of women participated in this conference.
The meeting started with the speech of Mohammad Mohaqiq, the political and security advisor of the previous government’s president, criticizing the Taliban’s governance process and talking about the monopoly of power by this group.
Mohaqiq, who was connected online in the meeting, said: “The government that has been established in this country is an extremist Taliban government, single-ethnic and single-party, and in the structure of this government, there is no party other than the Taliban group, all executive, judicial institutions and security are in the hands of the Taliban.”
He further added that none of the ethnic groups other than the Taliban [Pashtun] are in power or have a symbolic presence.
Mohaqiq said: “Actually, the entire government is made up of Taliban with the prefix Mawlawi and Mullah.”
Mohaqiq has emphasized the solution of Afghanistan through real intra-Afghan dialogue.
Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, said in the meeting that this meeting is the beginning of forming a large coalition, along with the fight against the Taliban. Emphasizing the unity and cooperation between the opponents of the Taliban, he said that everyone welcomes the formation of the alliance.
The founders of the Vienna meeting, despite focusing on strengthening the anti-Taliban movements, shared limited information about the meeting with the media and journalists.
So far, it is not clear what other solution is proposed for the current crisis in Afghanistan, besides the peaceful solution of dialogue and fighting with the Taliban.
Last year, the participants of this meeting had also suggested intra-Afghan talks to get out of the Afghan crisis, but after a year, they did not achieve any concrete results. Despite that, the question has been created, what other solution do the anti-Taliban political movements achieve?
