While influential Western media demonize the Taliban and paint terrible pictures of the future of Afghanistan, plunging it into medieval darkness with religious repression and the disenfranchised position of women, the eastern information field is expectingly eyeing the actions of the insurgent movement, which literally overnight turned the course of world history.

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Many are skeptical about the assurances of the Taliban who came to power in Afghanistan.

That was sounded again on Sunday air by Al Jazeera- an international television company headquartered in Doha, London, Kuala Lumpur and Washington.

Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, a leading Taliban figure currently in charge of the security of Kabul, reiterated the group's statements that “all Afghans” should feel safe under the rule of their Islamic Emirate, and recalled that it had been announced “general amnesty” in 34 provinces of the country.

Speaking Sunday on Al Jazeera TV, Haqqani said the Taliban are working to restore order and security in the country that has survived more than four decades of war.

“If we can defeat the superpowers, we can certainly ensure the security of the Afghan people,” said Haqqani, who is also a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war.

At that, the United States continues to call Haqqani a “global terrorist,” and he also remains on the UN terrorist list.

Haqqani's statement comes as thousands of people continue to try to infiltrate Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport, where the Taliban, intelligence services and US soldiers are actively trying to hold off crowds desperate to leave the country.

Since many people first gathered outside the airport last Sunday, there have been reports of violence, injury, crush and death on an almost daily basis.

Nevertheless, on the air of the TV show, Haqqani insisted that people not be afraid of the Taliban.

– Our hostility was associated with the occupation. There was a superpower that came from outside to divide us. They have forced a war on us. We are not hostile to anyone, we are all Afghans,” he said.

Haqqani's reference to "forced" war goes back to a similar term often used by the government of former President Ashraf Ghani. This government has repeatedly called the Afghan conflict an "imposed war."

However, both sides disagree on who they claim led to the war in Afghanistan. For the Taliban and Haqqani, it was the United States and their coalition of 40 countries, while Ghani and his administration often accused neighboring Pakistan of violence, discord, and aiding the Taliban and other armed groups in their country. Islamabad denies these attacks.

Now that foreign forces are less than 10 days away from a complete withdrawal, Haqqani and the Taliban say they see no enemy on Afghan land and want to work with as many people as possible to bring order to the country.

Since the capture of Kabul last Sunday, Taliban leaders have sought to show a more "moderate" face and have begun negotiations to form a government.

Haqqani points to recent meetings with former President Karzai, as well as Abdullah Abdullah, a member of the resistance against initial Taliban rule in the 1990s, and Gul Agha Sherzai, a former minister of borders and tribal affairs, as proof that the group is ready for dialogue. ...

“Karzai has been in conflict with us for 13 years, but in the end we even assured him of his safety,” Haqqani said, referring to the years Karzai spent as head of the western-backed Afghan government that the Taliban called “puppet” administration. In another sign that the group is signaling a willingness to move away from past feuds, the Taliban on Sunday allowed Karzai and Abdullah to negotiate with Ahmad Massoud, the son of slain mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud.

In the 1990s, Masood Sr. provided the only armed resistance to the Taliban's strict five-year rule. Now Masood Jr. holds the Panjshir province northeast of Kabul, which, unlike the rest of Afghanistan, was not captured by the Taliban. There are fears that if young Massoud's movement, which is called "Resistance 2.0" online, fails to reach an agreement with the Taliban, it could push Afghanistan into a new civil war. Agence France-Presse reported that hundreds of Taliban fighters are heading towards Panjshir.

To further prove his point that the Taliban are carrying out their amnesty promises, Haqqani told Al Jazeera about his recent contacts with former government national security adviser Ghani Hamdullah Mohib.

“I spoke to Mohib, I told him not to leave, that he and President Ghani would be safe.

In statements posted on Facebook, Ghani said he wanted to avoid bloodshed and save his life, saying that his security service had warned of a real threat to kill him.

Haqqani denies this claim. But for many Afghans, the words of Haqqani and Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid are not enough to get them back to normal.

Meanwhile, Haqqani said the Taliban are working hard to keep other Afghans from fleeing, but the spread of what he says are unfounded reports of abuse and violence complicates the task considerably.

The whole world saw the footage from the Kabul airport, instinctively feeling through them the fear and horror of people trying to escape from this country. However, Haqqani says that "the whole world" is trying to "deceive" the people of Afghanistan, claiming that the Taliban will eventually return to the strict, brutal rule of the 1990s. According to him, it is because of this that people go to the airport, "where they are treated shamefully." Denying the movement's return to the old harsh regime, Haqqani says educated people should work to serve their country, not go to the airport, where they face violence and humiliation.

“We cannot build Afghanistan from the outside,” he told those who are either waiting to leave or have already left.

He also referred to the past 20 years of overseas intervention, with foreigners and Afghans coming from abroad to work in the country:

– Outsiders cannot build a nation for us. All they did was destruction of it.

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