In a recent interview to GEO News, a senior Taliban leader Khalil ur Rahman Haqqani said “there is no enmity” between the group and Ghani, Saleh and former National Security Advisor, Hamdullah Mohib.
“We forgive Ashraf Ghani, Amrullah Saleh and Hamdullah Mohib,” said Haqqani, adding that enmity between the Taliban and the three was only on the basis of religion.
“We forgive everyone from our end; from the general (who fought in the war against us) to the common man,” he said.
Haqqani urged people fleeing the country not to do so, adding that the “enemy” was spreading propaganda that the Taliban will exact revenge on them.
“Tajiks, Balochs, Hazaras and Pashtuns are all our brothers,” he added.
“The Americans were using weapons against us, on our homeland,” he said, adding that God gave the Taliban American weapons as the spoils of war.
Promising a government that would represent all groups within Afghanistan, Haqqani said people from all schools of thought were pledging their allegiance to the Taliban.