Would the Taliban sit for talks?

Efforts are being made for holding parleys with the Taliban during the current month but nothing can be said with certainty at the moment whether or not these talks would take off. It is not clear as to what is meant by the statement issued after the meeting of four-countries contact group in Islamabad recently that all the groups of the Taliban should participate in the proposed deliberations!As far as we know there is only one group of Mullah Akthar Mansoor which represents 95 percent of Taliban and only five percent Taliban who have not yet declared allegiance to it are outside its fold. The Taliban are on record having asked that the UN and the US to first of all cancel the warrants of arrest of some important Taliban elders and release the arrested Taliban leaders before which they could decide whether or not they willing to resume talks with the Allied forces. There is not even a cat in hell’s chance of the resumption of these talks unless these pre-conditions of the Taliban are first met. The Taliban are in no hurry. Mullah Omar’s prophesy that no doubt US forces have wrist watches on their hands but we have a lot of time with us. Things have not panned out the way US think -thanks had planned them to be. Even after 15 years of their occupation of Afghanistan, the US and its allied forces have not been able to win the hearts of the Afghans or wipe off the Taliban. It appears that despite the death of Mullah Omar, his protege stands united and Washington’s attempt to create a rift in them so that they could split up hasn’t materialised. The US policy makers must be rueing and regretting the day they had decided on a military offensive in Afghanistan.
The participation of the Chinese in the efforts to make the Taliban sit for talks, however, is liked by the Taliban in their heart of hearts as they seem to trust them more than the other political stake-holders in the region. Beijing wants end of all types of hostilities in the area because of mammoth investment which it has been making in the region in various developmental projects.