GHAZNI CITY (PAN): The Ghazni governor on Saturday asked the Taliban to shift their political office from Doha to the southern province, serving as the current capital of the Islamic civilisation. 
Addressing a meeting of the Tribal Solidarity Council, Musa Khan Akbarzada said the insurgent movement should ponder over his proposal if it was really interested in peace negotiations.
Akbarzada told the audience, including tribal elders and political figures from Maidan Wardak, Paktia, Paktika, Khost and Zabul provinces, that the Taliban’s argument regarding a foreign military in Afghanistan no longer sounded plausible.
The opening of the movement’s bureau in Doha negated it, the governor said, explaining the Taliban representatives in Qatar were living in a foreign building and using vehicles of the host government.
He said the ongoing war was aimed to promote foreign interests, but the Afghans were paying the cost. The gubernatorial call was supported by the participants.
A tribal elder from Paktika, Shahbaz Khan, denounced the current conflict as a fratricidal war that brought a lot of devastation to the country. He called for effective measures to ensure inclusive and fair presidential elections.
His counterpart from Ghazni, Allah Nazar Ziyaee, urged the militants to sit across the negotiating table with Afghan officials. “The killing of Afghans -- whether the Taliban or security personnel -- must stop,” he concluded.