(19 Aug 2021)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE CORRECTION IN NAME OF SPEAKER IN SHOTS 3 AND 5. HE IS AHMAD WALI MASSOUD, FORMER AFGHAN AMBASSADOR++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Islamabad - 19 August 2021
1. Afghan political leadership arriving for briefing
2. Mid of presser
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Wali Massoud, former Afghanistan ambassador:
"Our priority is how exactly to refrain, to stop these attacks of Taliban on those areas they have not yet got, especially the Panjshir valley. As you know that they have not got some other areas in central zone of Afghanistan, that's very, very important."
4. Cutaway of reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Wali Massoud, former Afghanistan ambassador:
"If we have any sort of government which has to represent the (inaudible) of Afghanistan that must be based on the sharing of the power, without that one people will never see peace in Afghanistan. You could remember, we know that Dr. Ghani (exiled Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani) for the past 20 years, he did all the time try to have all the power for himself. That's why despite all the support of international community he failed and he failed Afghanistan. We hope the Taliban should not try the same thing."
6. Cutaway of reporters
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Khalid Noor, son of prominent Afghan politician Atta Muhammad Noor:
"(The) Taliban cannot rule by force in Afghanistan. They may have taken power by force, they may be in Afghanistan for some time, but it will be a very short time, and if they do not respect the rights of our people and they do not respect the right of women, children, ethnicities and the cultures of Afghanistan then they are bound to be defeated, and removed from the country."
8. Mid of presser
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Khalid Noor, son of prominent Afghan politician Atta Muhammad Noor:
"Whatever they (the Taliban) are saying now, it's more words, we haven't seen it in action. So we will have to wait and to see if they really, if they have really changed. I doubt it, I still do not believe they have changed, what they are doing is more a commissary, than a policy."
10. End of press conference
STORYLINE:
A delegation of senior Afghan leaders on Thursday warned that the Taliban will not survive in government for long if it repeats past mistakes.
The leaders of the delegation, which arrived in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad a day after the Taliban took the control of Kabul, made the comments after meeting with Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan and other government and military officials.
The delegation is headed by the speaker of parliament Mir Rehman Rehmani.
Other members included Salahud-din-Rabbani, Mohammad Yunus Qanooni, Ahmad Zia Massoud, Ahmad Wali Massoud and Khalid Noor.
Addressing a press conference, former Afghan ambassador to the UK, Ahmad Wali Massoud said the priority was to stop the Taliban from retaking further areas in Afghanistan.
Massoud added the government in Afghanistan can only succeed if it is "based on the sharing of the power".
Khalid Noor, son of prominent warlord Atta Noor, said the Taliban could only offer "words" and the world would have to "wait to see if they have changed."
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