KABUL (SW): Abdullah Adbullah, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Unity Government (NUG) said that Afghanistan is in the worst situation and that fueling the ethnic and linguistic tensions will make the situation uncontrollable.
Speaking at the commemoration ceremony for the fourth death anniversary of Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim, the then first vice president of Afghanistan, CEO Abdullah said about Marshal Fahim that he wanted the unity of Afghanistan and did not hesitate to make any effort to unite the people of Afghanistan until the last days of his life.
In a part of his speech, CEO of NUG spoke about the peace with Taliban and said that the government has left peace doors open to these groups, and in the meantime, will fight them if they don’t agree to accept the offer of peace.
At the second meeting of the Kabul Process, the government presented a package of peace talks with the Taliban. Dr Abdullah’s remarks have been referring to this peace deal. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani had said during the meeting at the Kabul Process that NUG will help open the Taliban office, issue passports and allow the members of the group to travel, and will agree to lift sanctions, provide access to media and transfer their families to Afghanistan if Taliban agree to the peace deal.
Adib Fahim, elder son of Marshal Mohammad Qassim Fahim and the First Deputy Director of the National Security Directorate, Yarif Yaftali, Chief of Staff of the Army, Abdul Rauf Ebrahimi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, leader of the Hezb-e Islami were among the speakers at this event.
During the ceremony, Taj Mohammad Jahid, read President Ghani’s message on the occasion of Marshal Fahim’s memorial.
At this event, the former President Hamid Karzai also remembered Marshal Fahim as an influential figure on the creation of the new system in Afghanistan. President Karzai said Marshal Fahim was one of the few figures who tried to keep Afghanistan united.
Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf, a former Jihadi figure, called on the government not to compromise with the Taliban in the “peace deal”. Referring to the recent statements of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hezb-e Islami, Mr Sayyaf said provinces and districts should not be given to the Taliban due to the “peace deal”. According to him, the provinces that will be handed over to the Taliban will only see war and corruption, not peace and security; however, he said: “if the Taliban are in peace with the government, they will undoubtedly own all of the country as much as the other Afghanistan's citizens”.
In a conversation with the New York Times, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has said the government should provide the Taliban group with some local autonomous districts in a number of provinces. He has said that he had provided this plan to President Ghani himself.
Hekmatyar has referred to these areas as the Provinces of Peace and has added that the government troops should leave those areas. Hekmatyar has also emphasized that President Ghani had shown his support to agree to this plan in order to maintain peace and stability in the country.
Mohammad Qassim Fahim, who was honored with the highest military rank (Marshal) during the reign of the then president Hamid Karzai, after the assassination of Ahmad Shah Masood, got famous fighting the Taliban.
Marshal Fahim, after commander Masood’s assignation, led the Mujahideen forces in the fight against the Taliban and had played an important role in the collapse of the Taliban regime.
Marshal Fahim was also active in the politics of Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban regime, with the exception of the five-years of Hamid Karzai’s elected government which he didn’t participate.
Mohammad Qassim Fahim was born in 1957 in Omarz village of Panjshir province. He received his elementary education in his hometown and studied Islamic Law at Kabul University.
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