BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 08:12:00
I have to qualify that. i have had a number of talks with taliban members of the negotiation team in doha, and a significant part of the taliban leadership lives elsewhere and i haven't had the opportunity... lives in pakistan? lives in pakistan, yes. the primary objective is to return to power or have a very significant share in power in afghanistan. whether that happens through negotiation, which i would find preferable, or whether it is through a military victory, i think it is perhaps secondary in the thinking and i think the focus is really on coming back to something they had in the past...