Qizilbash, Baluch tribes announce support for peace process

Mirwais Sargand, a senior adviser at the State Ministry for Peace (SMP), met with representatives of the Afghanistan’s Qizilbash Council and the Baluchi Council at a gathering where they announced their support to the peace process. Sargand discussed with them the SMP’s achievements, challenges faced by it and future opportunities.
Referring to the SMP’s efforts for peace, Sargand said the ministry had held consultative meetings on the peace process with elders, influential figures, public representatives, scholars, civil activists, women, youth, the media and other classes of the country. He added that as part of these consultative meetings, the ministry's representatives were set to travel to the country's zones for gathering people’s views of the peace process and gaining their support in this regard in order to use them as a key roadmap for getting out of the current situation.
H also assured that the ministry would adhere to the government’s commitments in terms of human rights and women's rights.
The senior adviser also emphasized that the Afghan peace process was effective in resolving regional problems and had regional and global dimensions.
At the meeting, Mushtaq Kabir, the chairman of the Qizilbash Council, presented a plan with regard to the peace process he had drawn up in agreement with the Baluchi Council.
According to him, the plan comprises determining the vulnerability, getting out of the crisis, national consensus and focusing on intra-Afghan dialogue.
He called on SMP to make efforts for reaching a ceasefire, resolving the ethnic conflicts and restoring the people’s political confidence in the government.
Nizamuddin Fitrat Baluch, head of the Afghanistan Baluchi Council, while presenting another segment of the joint plan stressed on national consensus, focus on intra-Afghan talks, and the establishment of a peace advisory board at SMP.
Members of the two councils while pledging their support for the peace process stressed that they were ready for any kind of cooperation to advance the peace process.