The Taliban want the war to be called jihad and say the decision should be based on Hanafi jurisprudence. The Taliban are opposed to mentioning other religions.
9 days have passed since the first round of Afghan talks However, the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban have not yet succeeded in establishing a modalities for formal peace talks.
The procedure, which is set to have nine articles, has some controversial issues that have involved 44 members of the two sides' delegations for 9 days.MSTnews correspondent who has covered the process since the first round of talks, says naming the war in Afghanistan over the past 20 years is the religious foundation of negotiations and the site of the US-Taliban agreement. Which was signed in March - are issues of contention between the two sides.
The Taliban want the war to be called jihad and say the decision should be based on Hanafi jurisprudence. The Taliban are opposed to mentioning other religions.
This is despite the fact that Article 131 of the current Afghan constitution recognizes the Jafari religion and the Afghan parliament has passed a separate law on Shia religion.
"Discussions are underway on procedures and issues of contention," said Fereydoon Khozoon, a spokesman for the National Reconciliation Council. "Our hope is that these issues will be resolved soon."
But Mohammad Mohaqiq, the leader of Afghanistan's National Unity Party, insisted at a ceremony in Kabul on Friday that ethnic and religious issues should not be raised again in the country: "After 20 years of democracy. And beyond that in Afghanistan we got to know each other, we got to know each other, the tribes of Afghanistan, the languages of Afghanistan, the religions of Afghanistan, that's what we discussed in the Loya Jirga and we recognized each other. And we accepted each other. ”
"Hanafi jurisprudence is not everything," says Ghulamuddin Kalantari, a religious scholar. This means that Hanafi jurisprudence is not the whole of Sharia. We have many cases that the Hanafis have referred to other jurists. ”
Another source from the two factions said that the Taliban's demand for an agreement with the United States should be one of the basis of the agreement and that Afghan-Afghan talks should not be considered separate from it. This means that if the US-Taliban agreement is violated, the Taliban are not committed to continuing Afghan-to-Afghan talks.
One of the three contentious issues was agreed upon, in which the word "conflict" would be used instead of "jihad" and "war." However, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has not yet agreed that negotiations should be based solely on Hanafi jurisprudence and that an agreement between the United States and the Taliban should be the basis for negotiations.
