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Peace talks: A cul-de-sac?

Without any contention, never ever the nation stood in need of a measure of stability and normality as pressingly as it does at present. To face up the unprecedented, colossal and gigantic challenges confronting it so menacingly internally as well externally, the nation desperately needs unity and unarguably political maturity, as there has been too much bloodshed in the name of religion, politics and ethnic division. If this time we didn’t realize our blunders and attempted to shun our obduracy, still clinging and sticking to the old shenanigans, tomfooleries and stubbornness, then we don’t have any right to complain against our neighbors for intervening into our internal affairs. Keeping the nation in a state of turmoil for so long and the country in a limbo for the most part, the political rivals or insurgents still believe themselves as genuine rulers of the land whereas they forget at the same time that they were a foreign graft on the land of Afghans even if they were in power and today still they stand as a foreign saplings being planted by others. To speak bluntly and roughly, the peace talks have in effect virtually turned into an Achilles' heel of the nation and the nation has lost confidence in its positive results as we couldn’t see any political office of the Taliban in Turkey or Qatar and pursuing peace talks with them on their address-less rendezvous is just a mirage to run after. Besides that the nation’s nerve-wrecking anxieties would know of no bounds and the uncertainties engulfing the two groups, the one in government and the second out of the government. The former is sincere in its efforts to put an end to the deadlock while the latter is obdurate enough to budge even an inch from its stubborn standpoint—the complete withdrawal of the foreign forces. The country is spiraled in such a quagmire that eventually will push back the nation to such a low wherefrom it will be too hard to make a comeback and to stand equally at par with other nations of the world. Indeed the most worrisome and too unfortunate thing that happened in during this century is the Afghan conundrum that took the lives of millions and will ruin the lives of millions more. Though the foreign forces will leave this part of the world, but still be a never ending war? If yes then the place is a hell for those who take birth here, and if no then why we cannot break the political inertia that has wreaked our mindset for the past 33 years.
The need is the Taliban and the Afghan government should knuckle down to peace talks as those in power echelons and those out of it being political rivals these days own the right to exercise their political will on this land however by mutual consent not by force or power grabbing. The matter should be left to the nation and whoever they elect is the head of the state, and own the right to exercise their political power, and whoever is rejected he will have to be part of the normal civilian society instead of becoming an insurgent and killing his own countrymen and co-religionists. But the matter is still there as when the foreign troops would make a complete withdrawal from here the Taliban would once again try to impose their will by use of forces instead of seeking a political solution to the issue. They are well tolerant to accommodate democracy elsewhere in the Muslim world but quite intolerant to see it thriving at their own home. What a joke and what a misfortune of the nation?