Taliban Mullah Omar dismisses US-Afghan security pact, elections

Taliban supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, Sunday rejected as document of slavery the proposed U.S.-Afghan security pact that seeks stay of American troops after the NATO 2014 withdrawal and said Afghans would never accept the agreement.

Omar’s remarks in his traditional “Eid” message just a day after President Hamid Karzai and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry agreed on some key parts of the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) however the issue of providing immunity to the U. S. soldiers remained unresolved.

“The invaders and their allies should understand that the strategic agreement will accompany grave consequences for them,” Omar, whose whereabouts are unknown, said in the message, issued late Sunday.

President Karzai Sunday appointed former President Sibghatullah Mujaddadi to convene a “Loya Jirga” or grand assembly to discuss and give a formal approval to the document.

Mulla Omar opposed the move to get the BSA approved by the Jirga.

“Though they may get these documents rubberstamped by a fake Loya Jirga but it will not be acceptable to the Afghans. Throughout the history, the real representatives and Loya Jirgas of the country have never signed documents of slavery,” the Taliban leader said.

He said those who would sign the BSA document, could not be called a representative Loya Jirga of the country.

“Their decisions are not acceptable. The invaders should know that their limited bases will never be accepted.  The current armed Jihad will continue against them with more momentum,” Mulla Omar went on to say.

“The Kabul Administration and the invaders are not only bent on playing havoc with Afghanistan domestically,  but are marginalizing the country  at regional and global level by signing colonial agreements and thus  procure reasons for continuation of the war,” he said.

The Taliban reclusive leader also rejected the upcoming Presidential elections scheduled for April 2014, the year set by NATO troops for withdrawal.  He laughed at the U.S. quest for elections in Afghanistan and said Americans and their allies are in fact do not believe in elections as they supported the dismissal of elected government in Egypt.

“The Afghan people could not be enticed by the (current) conspiracy of misleading people under the name of elections in the shade of the occupation in the country because, those figures are active in these elections who are catering only to personal interests and the interests of the invaders rather than the Islamic and national interests,” Mulla Omar said. 

He regretted that some of the leaders are trying to distort the very principles of the sacred religion of Islam in order to reach the corridor of power and to please the non-believers.

“The people know that some foreign stooges are playing with their destiny. The votes of the people have no value in the elections nor will participation benefit.  Therefore,  the Islamic Emirate rejects these elections and urge the people to avoid participation in them because this is only a drama being played by the invaders to attain their goals,” he said.

Mulla Omar disowned all those former Taliban representatives who are trying to open any alternate office on the name of the “Islamic Emirate” in the pattern of their Political Office.

In a reference to the Taliban office in Qatar, the Taliban leader said, “We have mandated the Political Office of the Islamic Emirate to maintain contacts with the world. If someone wherever, tend to open an office under the name of the Islamic Emirate, they will not represent the Islamic Emirate. Contact with none-representative individuals is a waste of time and would not benefit.”

He said if someone rather than the Political Office makes contacts with the Opposition or any one expresses support for the elections under the name of the Islamic Emirate, they are not the Taliban representatives nor they have contact with the Taliban.