People, who hope for action by foreigners, without a plan and popular support are doomed to failure, a foreign ministry official said on Tuesday in response to a meeting in Austria that brought together opponents of the Islamic Emirate.

Zakir Jalali, head of Asian Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, did not name any specific person, but said that no one is willing to count on the “empty words of burnt beads” (fugitive politicians) and that people who hope for action by foreigners without a plan and popular support are doomed to failure.

On X, Jalali called the participants of the Vienna meeting a “wandering crowd”.

“Those who have no plans, no popular support, and no understanding of international politics, and still hope for action by foreigners, are doomed to failure. That wandering crowd doesn’t know that they no longer have any buyers in the political market, and no one is willing to count on the empty middle words of burnt beads.”

The Vienna meeting was held on Monday and attended by 70 political and civil rights figures in Austria. Some of the participants of this meeting emphasized the final effort to resume intra-Afghan dialogue and negotiations as the only solution.

This meeting was held on the eve of the third Doha meeting hosted by the United Nations.

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