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2020-04-10 Afghanistan
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Afghan Govt Releases Another 100 Taliban Prisoners, Talibs don’t hold up their end of the deal
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[ToloNews] The Afghan National Security Council confirmed on Thursday afternoon that another 100 prisoners had been released. This follows an initial release on Wednesday of the first group of 100 prisoners released by the Afghan government.
Jawid Faisal, the front man for the National Security Council, said: "According to the president's order, 100 Taliban
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prisoners were released after they pledged not to return to the battlefield, also considering their health status, age, and the length of their imprisonment, and to fight better against coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
 ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
and to make progress in peace talks, they were released."
On Wednesday, Jawid Faisal said these were part of "efforts for peace and containment of COVID-19," he said.
Following weeks of delays, the Afghan government announced the first release of 100 Taliban prisoners presumably as a step to bring the Afghan government and Taliban closer toward intra-Afghan talks.
"The 100 prisoners were on the broader list that the Taliban technical team shared and discussed during meetings with the technical team of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan in Kabul," said the statement by the Office of the National Security Council.
This comes after Waheed Omar, a top advisor to President Ghani, on Tuesday said that the release of Taliban prisoners is a time-consuming process and there is no need to panic. He said that the Afghan government remains committed to the prisoner swap with the Taliban, but in order to make this happen, there is a need for good intentions from both sides about the issue.
Earlier, a three-member delegation from the Taliban arrived in Kabul to discuss the issue of the Taliban’s prisoners. But the Taliban's front man Suhail Shaheen tweeted on Tuesday that the "technical team will not participate in fruitless meetings with relevant sides starting from tomorrow."
The prisoner release is a step outlined in the US-Taliban deal signed in Doha on February 29 and is intended to be a confidence-building measure to pave the way for the intra-Afghan talks.
And what, pray tell, are the Taliban — or this particular group of Taliban, at any rate — doing to build confidence that they can be trusted?
Taliban Ex-Prisoners Pledge No Return to Battlefield
[ToloNews] Jawid Faisal, the front man for the National Security Council, said: "According to the president's order, 100 Taliban
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prisoners were released after they pledged not to return to the battlefield, also considering their health status, age, and the length of their imprisonment, and to fight better against coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
and to make progress in peace talks, they were released."
But Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid said the release of Taliban prisoners was not based on the group's agreement with the United States, and that the process is unacceptable for the group.
"the stalemate will continue to be there if the entire prisoners of the Islamic Emirate weren’t released including the 15 individuals (15 high profile Taliban inmates) who are the disputed ones," said Jalaluddin Shinwari, the attorney general in the Taliban regime.
Although the Afghan government has already released 200 Taliban prisoners, so far it is not clear when the Taliban will release 1,000 Afghan prisoners of war who were set to be released at the same time as the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
"As they discussed in the agreement with the United States, it must be implemented and inter-Afghan negotiations must begin and the country must get rid of this crisis," said Sayed Akbar Agha, a former Taliban commander.
Meanwhile,
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Taliban negotiator Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai
...Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Head of the Taliban political office in Doha. He was a member of Rassoul Sayyaf's group in the war against the Soviets....
in an interview said that Washington and NATO
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have been defeated in the war in Afghanistan. Stankizai also said that the Taliban does not recognize the Afghan government and that only "one delegate from the government will participate in the potential intra-Afghan talks."
"The Taliban must also show their goodwill, but unfortunately they do not know any word called 'goodwill,'" said Abdul Satar Hussaini, a member of parliament.
Precisely. 
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