, anas haqqani denied this. he said it had been concocted by the united states to split the taliban. have a listen. translation: the haqqani network is not a name - that we have ever used. it's part of the cia's programme to divide the islamic emirate of afghanistan. regarding the fight against the invaders, it is true that we were involved, we accept that. every afghan is proud of it. it is because of this fight that we ended the occupation. it is natural that there will be casualties in war. it happened to both sides and everyone is sorry for that. we are not happy about it and we ask all sides in the conflict to forgive each other. it is part of warfare. we were not the main cause of this war, however — the united states was. does it feel in afghanistan that the threat of violence is always there? and if so, how is the taliban dealing with that? the one thing the taliban said when they swept to power was that they were promising security for all afghans, but since they came to power 100 days ago, we have se

as you said, i've been speaking to anas haqqani. to put it into context, the haqqani network has been infamous for some of the most large—scale attacks in this country on its civilians and coalition forces over the last two decades. his brother is currently the interior minister of the country and the united states has a $5 million bounty on him as well as on his uncle who is the refugee minister, the terrorist activities. anas haqqani is an influential member of the taliban as well as the haqqani network but he told me the whole idea that the haqqani network is one of the most dangerous terrorist organisations in the world is a myth that was concocted by the united states to split the taliban. this is what he had to say. translation: the haqqani network is not a name i that we have ever used. it is part of the cia's programme to divide the islamic emirate of afghanistan. regarding the fight against the invaders, it is true that we were involved, we accept that. every afghan is proud of it. it is because of this fight that we ende

my colleague yalda hakim who is in afghanistan — she spoke to senior taliban leader anas haqqani — who was calling for a new relationship with the west after 20 years of war with the american led coalition. translation: regarding the fight against the invaders, _ it's true that we were involved, we accept that. every afghan is proud of it. it's because of this fight that we ended the occupation. it is natural that there will be casualties in war. it happened to both sides, and everyone is sorry for that. we are not happy about it, and we ask all sides in a conflict to forgive each other. it's part of warfare. we were not the main cause of this war, however, the united states was. no one is defected to isis, except for maybe a few people who are getting a government salary under the old regime. the rest of us have been working without pay for the last two decades, fighting on empty stomachs. we are not worried about our fighters defecting to isis k, as they have been through hard times of us. it is only those who are getting paid a lot by nato that are worried about money. those poor gu