Addressing political figures and journalists at the Presidential Palace on Friday, President Ashraf Ghani said it is time for anti-government armed groups to choose the path of peace “if they are Afghans and are not the tools of others”.

“The anti-government armed groups should choose. It is the time that they should choose whether they are Afghans and have been grown by an Afghan mother or they are a tool of Khawarij (members of an evil group that appeared in the first century of Islam) for creating divisions (among the people of Afghanistan),” he said. “Once again I extend the hand of peace to all of them (militant groups) and tell them that peace is the order of God.”

He commended the Afghan Security and Defense Forces.

In this episode of Tawde Khabare, host Zabi Sadat discusses the topic with the following guests:

• Meya Gul Wasiq, advisor to President Ghani

• Aminullah Shareq, political activist 

• Sayed Intezam Khadem, international relations analyst 

• Obaidullah Barakzai, MP