The French website “Intelligence Online”, a security expert, revealed that Saudi Arabia has appointed “Turki al-Faisal”, the former head of the country’s intelligence service, to talk to the Taliban.
According to the French website today (Sunday), Saudi Arabia has chosen a veteran intelligence figure, Turki al-Faisal, the former head of the Saudi public intelligence agency, to conduct a logical dialogue with the Taliban in order to eliminate what has been called Iran’s influence in Afghanistan. has done.
Saudi Arabia relies on Islamabad to facilitate talks with the Taliban, and when Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan traveled to Jeddah on May 7, he renewed his strategic alliance with Pakistan, followed by Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan. Saudi Arabia meets with its Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi on July 27.
The French security base added that the two had been in talks with the Pakistani intelligence service, led by Fayez Hamid, to mediate a Saudi dialogue with the Taliban.
Hamid also met with his Saudi counterpart Khalid bin Ali al-Hamidan, the Saudi director of public intelligence, at the Pakistan Intelligence and Security Agency headquarters.
According to the French online magazine, Turki al-Faisal’s mission to extend relations with Taliban leaders is due to his experience in dealing with them during the movement’s rise to power before the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan.
Al-Faisal recently met with prominent Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Yaqub, the son of the late Taliban founder Mullah Omar. Al-Faisal is also rumored to have traveled to Doha to meet with “Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar”, whom the United States held talks with in the Qatari capital.
Saudi Arabia was the first country to recognize the Taliban in the UAE more than 20 years ago, but according to online intelligence, this time it was about money.
