Taliban Want Peaceful Transfer Of Power In Afghanistan In "Next Few Days"

The Taliban spokesman said foreign embassies and workers would not be targeted by the group's fighters and they should remain in the country.

The Taliban want to take control of Afghanistan "in the next few days", a spokesman for the group told the BBC Sunday, as their fighters encircled the capital. "In next few days, we want a peaceful transfer," Suhail Shaheen, based in Qatar as part of the group's negotiating team, told the BBC. Suhail Shaheen laid out the policies of the Taliban ahead of an expected power transfer that would re-install the hardline Islamic group two decades after US-led forces toppled them in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. "We want an inclusive Islamic government... that means all Afghans will be part of that government," Suhail Shaheen said.