The US-Taliban deal can’t be the basis for all topics that will be discussed in the intra-Afghan talks currently happening between the Afghan government team and the Taliban, said Afghan chief peace negotiator Dr Abdullah Abdullah. 

In an interview with TOLOnews, Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, ruled out the Taliban’s demand to make the US-Taliban deal as a basis for talks intra-Afghan talks. 

The intra-Afghan talks that started on 12 September in Qatar this year have hit a deadlock as both sides failed to resolve differences over two contentious points. The first point, the Taliban’s insistence to make Hanifi jurisprudence as a religious basis for talks, and the second are to make the US-Taliban deal as the basis for future talks. 

The Doha talks have failed to reduce the violence in the country. Abdullah Abdullah earlier warned the Taliban not to think of using violence as a leverage tool in negotiation. 

The Taliban, on the other hand, stepped up their attacks and offensive all across the country since the two sides sat across the table in Doha, Qatar. The negotiation that was supposed to end the decades-old war in Afghanistan so far failed to even reduce the violence level in the war-torn country.