Taleban in Qatar

will there be a Taliban football team to play in the Qatari league?

Who will be the sponsor of the Talibans?

Will they be allowed to bring their wives & families?

The Taliban wouldn't be allowed to play in Qatar, since they aren't allowed to wear shorts as its against the Islamic dress code. Good Muslims wouldn't wear shorts, apparently,

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/18/world/an-afghan-penalty-for-soccer-shorts.html

I'm not sure I see the relevance if that to whether Taliban opens an office in Qatar, but right you are.

US shld first learn to control their own mentally retarded citizens who go on a shooting campaign in schools and cinema or rob ppl at atm machines

Well that's obviously not the opinion of the governments of countries like India, who fear that once the US and other forces withdraw, the Taliban will spread and we will see a repeat of the violence like the Mumbai Massacre.

The Indians, Pakistanis, Afghanis etc will be the ones killed as a consequence of what the US has done.

I feel bad for the innocent civilians in those countries who are now likely to be attacked.

tahsin what attacks and rapes omg i thought nato means peace

i hope taliban does the same contributions in the us and other coalition forces

cool contributions of nato in iraq and afghanistan

If (when, really) Nato, US, and other coalition forces finally withdraw from Afghanistan, the sad thing is that it's the regional neighbors who will suffer attacks from the Taliban.

More attacks in Pakistan, maybe more Mumbai style attacks in India ... Meanwhile the US and other western powers who helped create the tension will sitting safely at home.

It is already too late for NATO in general and the United States in particular. Ten years into a pointless war, and the countries warring against Taliban are still as clueless as the rest of the world as to where they stand.

If Taliban could not be defeated in ten years, what is the guarantee that they would be destroyed in a hundred years?

It is the last ditch chance for the world to come to some sort of settlement with the Taliban. Personally, I really feel sorry for the decade the United States lost to a war which benefited it, or the rest of the country, in no obvious way and which did not make anything any the better. If all these resources that were spent in defeating Taliban had been used to fund for example research and development projects, the world, today would have at least something to its credit.

It would be a most unwise decision by NATO to leave Afghanistan in 2014 at the mercy of the Taliban. All that they use to dread about terrorism before invading the country actually did not happen, but in the event of an unplanned withdrawal all those terrible things might in reality come to pass.

I wish the think tanks of NATO as well as other world powers devise an effective strategy so that Afghanistan, and other countries in the world, may remain in peace and harmony for the years to come. Let us hope, we would not have a bloody decade ahead, even though the first two years of it have been, rather that way.

@ UKEng... :)

The whole world cannot do anything as a community have already taken a decision to establish their Kingdom. Do they offer any courses with fire fighting certificates? America should start some pest controlling works immediately. Peace Out !

Don't know about Taliban in Qatar but plenty of them on QL..:)

So now we have good taliban and bad taliban ..

Such is the way of politics. Remember the IRA and Gerry Adams :O(

This might have interesting implications for other countries too, like India and Iran:

Why the rise of ‘good Taliban’ in Afghanistan worries India and Iran

By Rajeev Sharma

The importance of Iran for India cannot be over stated. Iran is a vital cog in the wheel of the Indian scheme of things for reaching out to Afghanistan. But the question is: whether both India and Iran are about to lose their leverage on Afghanistan?

The good news is that Iran is as uncomfortable as India on the back-room developments with regard to Afghanistan as the United States-led international community seems hell bent on “good” Taliban taking over the land-locked country in the post-2014 scenario of withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan.

http://www.firstpost.com/world/why-the-rise-of-good-taliban-in-afghanistan-worries-india-and-iran-576970.html

And some similar thoughts here

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Iran-echoes-India-over-fillip-to-opportunistic-terrorism-in-Afghanistan/articleshow/17865757.cms

It is opening.

http://www.khaama.com/afghanistan-sets-conditions-for-taliban-office-in-qatar-2084

Another link.

I guess it had to happen but it is sickening.

i wish i cld join them

I did a google search and from what I can tell, and I might be wrong, there were some talks, but the office never actually opened.

I'm not sure how credible news reports from the Frontier Post are - if the number of spelling errors is any indication....

http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/200472/

Khaama Press seem to give the impression that there is currently little chance of the office opening

http://www.khaama.com/afghanistan-sets-conditions-for-taliban-office-in-qatar-2084

I am waiting for the cocktail parties that will be held in the Taliban embassy :-)

(and I dont mean Molotov cocktails)

Yes, I think they happened, but did not go far. Karzai put a spanner in the works.

There are now rumours, that they will reconvene...

formally approved the opening of office in Qatar very recently.

so it is still Fresh and Hot news!

Did the office ever actually open? Or is it 'coming soon'?

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG

Published: January 3, 2012

Look at the published date of this article.

This story is a year old!

I think it might be a step in the right direction.

Brit!

It has to be done. They cannot win the war in the battlefield.

It has to happen. Afghanistan cannot survive without inclusion of all parties, once the allies leave.

Qatar has been playing a more overt role in world policts lately, so Doha as a "neutral" territory for discussions is logical.