Ghani to meet MPs on security issue

President Ashraf Ghani is expected to meet a number of  Parliament members to discuss about terrorism and the peace process in Afghanistan.

Intense of Taliban deadly attacks and government’s failure to bring Taliban to the negotiation table have made the National Assembly to launch a new bargaining with the National Unity Government (NUG) leaders.

“We will have a meeting with President Ghani on Monday night and submit our recommendations,” Zahir Qadir, Parliament’s first deputy speaker said.

A number of Wolesi Jirga members said that the National Assembly will submit recommendations about peace and providing the security to NUG leaders.

They warned that if the National Directorate of Security (NDS) does not revise security plan, Taliban’s attacks will intensify.

“The war has intensified and the NDS should rethink about its security plan,” Shekiba Hashemi, representative of Kandahar said.

The Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive on Tuesday, pledging to launch large-scale offensives against government strongholds backed by suicide and guerrilla attacks to drive Afghanistan’s Western-backed government from power.

The announcement of the formal start of “Operation Omari,” named after the late Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, comes just days after US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Kabul and reaffirmed U.S. support for the national unity government led by President Ashraf Ghani.

The insurgency has gained in strength since the withdrawal of international troops from combat at the end of 2014 and the Taliban are stronger than at any point.

Heavy fighting has continued for months across Afghanistan, from Kunduz, the northern city that fell briefly to the insurgents last year, to Helmand province bordering Pakistan in the south.

The Afghan government has been working with the U.S., China and Pakistan which has some influence over the Taliban to revive peace negotiations, but the insurgents earlier this year refused to take part in any talks.