Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the High Council of National Reconciliation (HCNR), on Thursday said the system will collapse if Afghan leaders do not forge a consensus on the issues of nati
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“Part II of this legislation is coming”, US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce said in his opening statement at a committee hearing entitled “Attacking Hezbollah’s Financial Network: Policy Options.” The United States alleges the Party of God is a global crime syndicate and has designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The hearing, held June 8, comes on the heels of Lebanese media speculation that the United States was already drafting new legislation intended to strangle Hezbollah’s finances, rumors local government and banking officials downplayed Executive reported in the June print issue.
Afghan Govt. Will Not Release More Taliban Prisoners: Omar
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Kabul (BNA) President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani’s senior adviser for public and strategic affairs, Waheed Omar, on Wednesday said that the Afghan government will not release more Taliban prisoners, and said that previous releases has resulted in more violence.
This comes as the Taliban has demanded the release of 7,000 more prisoners, the removal of the group’s members from the UN blacklist, and the formation of an Islamic system in order to continue the peace talks, according to peace talks.
Taliban Warns Govt Against Execution of its Jailed Members
The Taliban in a statement on Thursday warned the Afghan government of severe response if any of its members cutting jails are executed. The group said that peace process and execution cant move together.
A Taliban spokesman has claimed that all those 5,000 Taliban prisoners who were released recently from the Afghan government jails as part of the US-Taliban peace agreement had been sentenced to death by the Afghan courts, warning that any mistreatment of the remaining prisoners will pose serious harms to the peace process.
Meanwhile,l officials of Directorate of Prisons have said that over 1,000 prisoners have been sentenced to death by the courts in Afghanistan.
President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of state Antony Blinken said that the Biden administration will review the peace agreement with the Taliban.