From Reuters:
“Afghanistan's Massoud urges
elections to create legitimate government”
(Ahmad Massoud, son of the slain
hero of the anti-Soviet resistance Ahmad Shah Massoud, waves as he arrives to
attend a new political movement in Bazarak, Panjshir province Afghanistan
September 5, 2019.)
Only elections can lead
Afghanistan out of political crisis, even if they legitimise Taliban rule,
Afghan anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Massoud told a conference in Tajikistan on
Wednesday. The most recent elections in Afghanistan were held under the
U.S.-backed administration which the hardline Islamist Taliban deposed in
August 2021 when Western troops withdrew. The Taliban dissolved the country's
elections commission in December 2021.
Massoud, exiled leader of the
National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), made a rare public appearance
at an Afghanistan-focused event in Dushanbe with stronger-than-usual security
measures at the venue. Domestic, regional and international consensus is needed
to work out a general elections framework in Afghanistan, he said. Massoud did
not clarify who should be elected in such a vote. "Let the people decide
for themselves which kind of government they want," Massoud said. "If
the Taliban come to power through elections, (the Resistance Front) will accept
that as they will have the authority from the people." The NRF groups
opposition forces loyal to Massoud, son of the former anti-Soviet mujahideen
commander Ahmad Shah Massoud. It opposed the Taliban takeover and clashes have
occurred since August 2021 between the two sides in the resistance movement's
stronghold of Panjshir, north of the capital Kabul.
^ I don’t see the Taliban either
allowing Elections to be held or to give up any power if they lose the vote. The
Taliban are Muslim Terrorists that only know how to govern from their hiding
places in caves as they did for 20 years. Until the Taliban are removed from
power the Afghan people will continue to suffer under them. ^
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