26.10.2021, Moscow.
The Taliban regime (organization banned in Russia) is trying to gain legitimacy through the Afghan royal family, head of Center for Afghan Politics Study (CAPS), orientalist Andrey Serenko wrote on October 25 on his Telegram channel.
He noted that on October 24 in Kabul the Minister of Water and Energy of the Taliban (organization banned in Russia) junta Mulla Abdul Latif Mansur met with the son of the former Afghan King Mohammed Zahir Shah, Prince Mirwais Zahir. The Taliban (organization banned in Russia) minister discussed investments in Afghan projects, and Prince Mirwais expressed his willingness to cooperate, promising to involve his personal connections and friends.
“For the first time, an official meeting between a representative of the Taliban junta government (organization banned in Russia) and a member of the Afghan royal family took place and was made public,” the expert stresses.
Andrey Serenko notes that “there are strong reasons to suppose that yesterday’s conversation between Mulla Abdul Latif Mansur and Prince Mirwais Zahir is not only a probing of the possibility of cooperation between the Taliban (organization banned in Russia) and the family of the last Afghan King but also a demonstration that such cooperation, in fact, has already begun”.
The orientalist explains that earlier it was reported that Pakistani handlers of Afghan Islamists had a plan to legitimize the Taliban (organization banned in Russia) regime in Afghanistan with the involvement of the royal family. Prince Mirwais Zahir “declared his full support for the system.”
“It is possible that the Taliban (organization banned in Russia) will come up later with a project to return to the political system of Afghanistan the institution of the king (Shah) as a national symbol, but, of course, with completely sequestered real powers and levers of power,” he explains. And he recalls that there was information that militants want to use as an interim constitution the 1964 law, drafted under King Zahir Shah.
The last king of Afghanistan was Muhammad Zahir Shah, who ruled the country from 1933 to 1973. In 1973 he was overthrown by his cousin, Mohammed Daoud Khan, who became president of Afghanistan.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
