KABUL (SW): President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said on Friday that peace was the ultimate desire of the people of Afghanistan but the choice for peace will not be given away to others.
He said this while meeting the Ulema Council of Afghanistan at his office that unanimously denounced the militants and their terrorist acts.
President said the peace process should be an intra-Afghan one. He added declaring war in Afghanistan was morally, principally and in light of Sharia unjustifiable. Ghani asked the religious scholars to use their mosques in creating awareness in this regard.
Maulawi Ghulam Rabi Rehmani issued a communiqué at the end of the meeting on behalf of the Ulema Council. Condemning the latest spate of bombing in the capital that claimed multiple civilian lives, the Council said such terrorist acts have killed so many innocent countrymen including women and children.
The Ulema Council also denounced new Taliban leader’s call for “holy war” against the Afghan government and pronounced it un-Islamic plan of the enemies.
It called upon the armed rebels to resolve their differences with the government via peaceful means.
The latest string of attacks, for which Pakistan’s Army has been blamed, have changed Ghani’s tone towards Pakistan from a rather friendly one to a more critical one.
Ghani said on Monday that he does not want Pakistan to bring the Taliban to the negotiation table but want it to deny the militants santcuries to wage attacks on Afghanistan. Flanked by the higher-ups for security affairs, Ghani said Pakistan still remains a venue and ground for gatherings from which mercenaries send us messages of war.
“The incidents of the past two months in general and the recent days in particular show that the suicide training camps and the bomb making facilities used to target and murder our innocent people still operate, as in the past, in Pakistan”, the President said.
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