{"id":6004,"date":"2021-09-05T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2021-09-05T20:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T20:00:49","slug":"analysts-say-isi-chief-visited-kabul-to-resolve-rift-among-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/09\/analysts-say-isi-chief-visited-kabul-to-resolve-rift-among-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysts say ISI chief visited Kabul to resolve rift among Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Analysts believe the chief of Pakistan&#8217;s intelligence agency ISI visited Kabul earlier this week to mend ties among Taliban leaders at odd over different issues.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani media has reported that Gen. Faiz Hamid, head of Pakistan&#8217;s ISI, had left for Kabul at the invitation of the Taliban and was scheduled to meet with Taliban officials.<\/p>\n<p>Political analysts belive the reason for the Pakistani military intelligence chief&#8217;s arrival in Kabul was the escalation of internal divisions among Taliban leaders, and that the deepening tensions that prompted Islamabad to take action to resolve them.<\/p>\n<p>Sayed Baqir Mohseni, a political analyst, said the reason for the delay in announcing the government by the Taliban was a sign of serious and deep internal divisions, and the Pakistani intelligence official&#8217;s recent visit reinforces this view.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts believe that since the Taliban have not been able to resolve their internal tensions, they need mediation to end these differences.<\/p>\n<p>Akram Arefi, another political analyst, said that the Pakistani intelligence chief&#8217;s visit was very effective in curbing the differences, and that no power other than Pakistan could control the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Taliban have said that the ISI chief&#8217;s visit to Kabul was to continue cooperation between the two countries, and that the two sides are in talks to establish relations in various fields.<\/p>\n<p>Enamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban&#8217;s cultural commission, said co-operation to activate civilian flights at Kabul airport and resolve problems at the two countries&#8217; borders was one of the topics discussed between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>About three weeks have passed since the Taliban took control of the country, and despite the fact that Shir Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, the deputy head of the Taliban&#8217;s political office in Qatar, announced last Wednesday that a new government would be announced in two days, this promise has not been fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_210906_005743_559.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Analysts believe the chief of Pakistan&#8217;s intelligence agency ISI visited Kabul earlier this week to mend ties among Taliban leaders at odd over different issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,13,323],"class_list":["post-6004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-isi"],"views":498,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}