They aforementioned no call had been taken however senior leaders would meet either on Tuesday evening or weekday to debate the choice, that was being pushed by some Muslim states and different parties with sensible relations to the movement.
If agreed, it's going to be declared in Ghazni province, wherever the religious movement say they management most of the districts round the city.
Prior to the fighting in Ghazni, that has killed and wounded a whole bunch, there had been sturdy hopes of a repeat of the three-day armistice throughout the Eid-al Fitr vacation in Gregorian calendar month, the foremost concrete sign of progress toward peace since talks between the govt. and religious movement stone-broke down in 2015.
The government aforementioned last month it had been considering giving a ceasefire throughout Eid-al Adha, the annual feast of sacrifice, that begins next week however has to date not confirmed the supply and there has been no response from the religious movement.
“Our friends ar advising North American nation that we should always announce a four-day ceasefire for the forthcoming Eid-al Azha so the individuals of Islamic State of Afghanistan will peacefully celebrate their Eid like they did 2 months past,” one in every of the religious movement officers aforementioned.
“As usual there would be divided opinion on a ceasefire like we tend to two-faced last time throughout Eid-al Fitr however our supreme leader tribal sheik Haibatullah Akhunzada would then play his role and would either announce the ceasefire or could raise the fighters to continue their fight,” aforementioned the official, a member of the shura, or leadership council.
Another religious movement leader aforementioned he hoped their leadership may announce a ceasefire as last time it had helped win hearts and minds of the individuals of Islamic State of Afghanistan, with unarmed fighters and troopers seen mingling on the streets of national capital and different cities.
“The demand is for one week however our leadership could announce four days of ceasefire to change the Afghan individuals to shop for kill animals and celebrate Eid-ul-Azha in an exceedingly peaceful setting,” he said.
Asked United Nations agency the “friends” were, the primary official aforementioned the religious movement had friends and allies in several components of the planet.
In January, President Ashraf Ghani offered the religious movement peace talks while not conditions and therefore the u. s. has born its previous refusal to speak to the religious movement, language it'd be willing to participate in associate degree Afghan-led method.
Taliban officers say they need spoken on to the highest U.S. official on Islamic State of Afghanistan and West Pakistan in Qatar, wherever the religious movement maintains a political workplace and a delegation traveled to Asian nation this month to debate problems together with peace.
