MONITORING (SW) – President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said Taliban fighters are sick of fighting, but their leaders have become ‘investors’.
He said this addressing a panel discussion on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos.
''Are the Taliban sufficiently ready to engage? All wars must end politically and we have to find a political end to this war. The good news is that the ranking.The people sitting in Doha (insurgents' Qatar office) are getting their fourth or fifth wives and are enjoying themselves. They have become investors'', Ghani said in remarks televised live by the state broadcaster RTA.
He added the Afghan society has seen 40 years of violence. ''They have to see the end of violence, now it depends very much on the Taliban to end the violence''.
Responding to a question, Ghani said former president Hamid Karzai and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah have no strategy for peace.
Meanwhile, the Taliban have criticized President Ghani for his ‘irresponsible & ignorant’ remarks about Taliban leaders in Doha, Qatar.
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