Taliban send 'peace' envoy to talk with NATO representatives in Qatar

Scotsman:

Mullah Mohammad Omar, the spiritual leader of the Taleban, has given his blessing to Afghan peace talks and sent a "trusted envoy" to meet British, American and German officials, according to two former Taleban ambassadors in touch with those involved.
Abdul Hakim Mujahid, a former Taleban ambassador to Islamabad and one-time envoy to the United Nations in New York, said Omar had personally authorised his senior aide, Taib Agha, to meet western officials in Qatar - and he added that the Gulf state was now the front-runner to host negotiations and a Taleban office.

"Mullah Mohammad Omar himself has agreed for a kind of reconciliation," Mr Mujahid told The Scotsman. "That was the message he sent to the world community by his (envoy]."

Mullah Omar, the one-eyed Taleban leader living in exile in Pakistan, is widely seen as the only person who could authorise a nationwide ceasefire in Afghanistsan, but until now negotiators were unclear if he supported talks. "The whole legitimacy for resistance here in Afghanistan is in (Mullah Omar's] leadership," said Mr Mujahid. "If he doesn't agree with the continuation of resistance no one else will have his kind of legitimacy, so therefore you can say his opinion is the most important."

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I am skeptical. I do not think their word is any good. They are still illiterate religious bigots who want to abuse little girls and women. I suspect the most we could get from them is a fig leaf to cover a departure, after which they would try to take control again.