Second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danesh on Friday slammed the Taliban for the high level of violence and bringing up “new preconditions,” stressing the need for preserving the current
KABUL: Mohammadzai Kochi, police chief of Kabul’s police district 5 , was killed in an explosion that targeted his vehicle in downtown Kabul on Wednesday morning, First Vice President Amrullah.
Increased Afghan Insecurity Will Have Global Impact: Ghani
President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday said that if the current opportunity for peace in Afghanistan turns out to be lost, and Afghanistan plunges toward an uncertain future, the consequences of such a scenario will cause severe harm to regional and global peace and stability.
“The peril, Mr. Prime Minister, lies in misunderstanding this moment peace in Afghanistan is within grasp if parties and their backers in the Taliban embrace a true political solution, but Afghans will not submit to surrender. It must be understood that our heroic security forces are not defeated and neither have we lost our will or capacity for serving our people,” Ghani stated during a virtual meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem on Monday dismissed claims that 85 percent of the Taliban prisoners freed last year have returned to the battlefield.
“These remarks are not true … Kabul administration always make such remarks,” said Naeem, adding that some of the former inmates have been re-arrested without having committed crimes.
This comes after First Vice President Amrullah Saleh said on Sunday that 85 percent of the over 5,500 Taliban prisoners freed in accordance with the US-Taliban agreement last year had returned to the battlefield.
Saleh also said that many of them had been rearrested or killed by Afghan forces during clashes.