World shortest peace deal shows victory of Pakistan !!!
??? So much influence and cant make one deal work ???
Peace deal is over?....
no
US is withdrawing, india & co are screwed.
Yes, the government that can't secure Kabul properly. Because atleast that is better than Taliban according to me.
I agree better in
corruption
drug lord trafficking
Oppression
boy rapes
poor governance
etc
Lol, that is hilarious. No wonder Indians cannot function outside their country, they forget the ground reality and live in their own fantasy.
We have been in Afghanistan long before the first Gangu left its primordial Gangetic ooze, and will remain in Afghanistan long after the last Gangu is extinct.
he didnt even do a basic fact check.... but then again according to he is top exe. that meets Lockheed Martin country manager every day (i.e. tea boy services)
Khalilzad speaks to Taliban chief as Pentagon downplays new attacks by insurgents
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In a tweet, Khalilzad said his conversation with the Taliban chief was followed with a "constructive phone call" with US President Donald Trump. — Reuters/File
As the Pentagon played down the gravity of new Taliban attacks in Afghanistan, US Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Thursday said he met with the insurgent group's political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and his team for a "candid discussion" on next steps.
The recent attacks on Afghan forces had cast doubts on a four-day old peace deal between the insurgent group and the United States.
In a tweet, Khalilzad said his conversation with the Taliban chief was followed with a "constructive phone call" with US President Donald Trump.
"We all agreed the purpose of the US-Taliban agreement is to pave the path to a comprehensive peace in Afghanistan," he said.
U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad
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I met Mullah Berader and his team last night for a candid discussion about next steps, followed by a constructive phone call with President
@realDonaldTrump. We all agreed the purpose of the US-Taliban agreement is to pave the path to a comprehensive peace in
#Afghanistan.
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In a subsequent tweet, he said: "Increasing violence is a threat to the peace agreement and must be reduced immediately. In addition to discussing the need to decrease violence, we also talked about the exchange of prisoners."
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I met Mullah Berader and his team last night for a candid discussion about next steps, followed by a constructive phone call with President
@realDonaldTrump. We all agreed the purpose of the US-Taliban agreement is to pave the path to a comprehensive peace in
#Afghanistan.
U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad
✔@US4AfghanPeace
Increasing violence is a threat to the peace agreement and must be reduced immediately. In addition to discussing the need to decrease violence, we also talked about the exchange of prisoners.
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Khalilzad said that the US was committed to facilitating the prisoner exchange, which he said was agreed in both the US-Taliban Agreement and the US-Afghanistan Joint Declaration.
"We will support each side to release significant numbers," he said.
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Increasing violence is a threat to the peace agreement and must be reduced immediately. In addition to discussing the need to decrease violence, we also talked about the exchange of prisoners.
U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad
✔@US4AfghanPeace
US is committed to facilitating prisoner exchange, agreed in both US-Taliban Agreement & US-Afghanistan Joint Declaration. We will support each side to release significant numbers.
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"We must act on all fronts to clear the road of obstacles that slow our progress toward intra-Afghan negotiations. I once again call on all Afghans to rise to the occasion, put country first and not to lose this historic opportunity," Khalilzad concluded.
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US is committed to facilitating prisoner exchange, agreed in both US-Taliban Agreement & US-Afghanistan Joint Declaration. We will support each side to release significant numbers.
U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad
✔@US4AfghanPeace
We must act on all fronts to clear the road of obstacles that slow our progress toward intra-Afghan negotiations. I once again call on all Afghans to rise to the occasion, put country first and not to lose this historic opportunity.
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Khalilzad's comments come after the Pentagon on Wednesday played down the gravity of new Taliban attacks in Afghanistan.
Since the signing in Doha on Saturday, the militants have ramped up violence against Afghan forces, ending a partial truce and casting a pall over peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban, due to begin on March 10.
“There were a variety of attacks over the last 24 to 48 hours. And they were all beaten back," said General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the US military.
“What is important, though, for the agreement: we're on day four, this was small, low level attacks, out on checkpoints, etcetera,” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Afghanistan’s interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi on Wednesday detailed 30 attacks by the Taliban in 15 provinces over the previous 24 hours that left four civilians and 11 Afghan soldiers, dead, as well as 17 insurgents.
But Milley said “the Taliban have signed up to a whole series of conditions,” and he noted what has not occurred despite the latest violence.
“Of significance: there are no attacks on 34 provincial capitals, there are no attacks in Kabul. There’s no high profile attacks, there's no suicide bombers, there's no vehicle-borne suicide, no attack against the US forces, no attack against the coalition,” Milley said.
“There's a whole laundry list of these things that aren't happening,” he added.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told the same hearing that the Taliban were honouring their pledge under the accord to stop attacking US and coalition forces, but they had not followed through on an obligation to reduce the overall level of violence.
Esper said some of that was the challenge the group has in controlling its rank and file.
“Keeping that group of people on board is a challenge. They have got their range of hard-liners and soft-liners. And so they're wrestling with that, too, I think,” Esper said.
An American military spokesman said the US launched an airstrike against Taliban fighters in southern Helmand province on Wednesday to defend Afghan forces.
Under the peace deal, US and other foreign forces will quit Afghanistan within 14 months, subject to Taliban security guarantees and a pledge by the insurgents to hold talks with Kabul.
US forces invaded more than 18 years ago, after the 9/11 attacks on the United States, to overthrow the Taliban government that had sheltered Al Qaeda.