The Taliban accused Afghan President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani of obstructing reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan, and said that the President's government was not ready for a peaceful solution to the Afghan issue.
The movement indicated in an editorial published on its website that the negotiations in the Qatari capital, Doha, are close to a crucial stage, and that the Afghan people are waiting for the outcome of the negotiations between the Taliban and Washington.
It added that Afghan President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani had publicly opposed the Davos Forum for Reconciliation in Afghanistan. The movement says that foreign forces will withdraw from Afghanistan.
The movement announced that one of its senior officials had met American officials in the Qatari capital to discuss signing a peace agreement.
The Al-Jazeera correspondent in Afghanistan stated that the matter concerned Mullah Abdul-Ghani Brader, the movement's deputy chief of political affairs, who met in Doha with US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad.
A source on the island also said that the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, General Skat Miller, joined Khalilzad.
A spokesman for the Taliban political office, Suhail Shaheen, previously said that the movement’s negotiators from the United States met in the middle of this month in Doha to discuss signing a peace agreement, noting that the talks between the two sides were “beneficial.”
It is noteworthy that US President Donald Trump canceled intermittent talks with the Taliban last September, after a US soldier was killed in an attack carried out by the movement.
The talks resumed after Trump visited US forces in Afghanistan last November, and also stopped again the following month after the movement carried out a suicide attack on a US base outside Kabul, killing two civilians.