Indicating the prospects of no revival of the peace talks in near future, Taliban envoy to Pakistan Abdul Hakim Mujahid told newspersons here yesterday that besides the Northern Alliance, ``The United Nations should also be blamed in part for the failure of the talks.''

``Unless the UN does not prove its impartiality towards the issues, it can hardly play an effective role as a mediator and gain any achievement in resolving the Afghan issue,'' said Mujahid, who was an active member from Talibans side in the peace talks held here in the last week of April.

The talks between Talibans and Northern Alliance broke down after nearly a week of deliberations despite mediation by the UN and the Organisation of Islamaic Conference (OIC).

Mujahid accused the UN of not publicising the original records of the talks in which, according tohim, the Talibans made a number concessions while the Opposition alliance was ``insisting on their point of view in disregard of the importance of the Ulema (scholars) Commission'' proposed by the Talibans.

Criticising the recent statement by the UN accusing the Talibans for the failure of the talks, Mujahid said ``the statement should have contained the opinion of the IOC also, as both UN and OIC were the co-chairmen of the peace talks.'' He alleged that the talks failed because of the ``apathy towards the Islamic Sharia (law)'' and ``negative attitude'' of the Northern Alliance, which, he said, had ``internal differences''.

Casting ``doubts and suspicion'' on the role of the United States, Mujahid said ``the country has not yet recognised the Taliban government despite the fact that they control 80 per cent of the territories in Afghanistan.''He also criticised the role of the Amnesty International and slammed its criticism of the Taliban style of public executions.

``When a murderer is executed inthe United States, nobody takes note of it. But when we execute a murderer, there is such a criticism. This is a clear attack on our religious rights,'' he remarked.