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Afghanistan
Afghan president postpones US trip to discuss Taliban deal
2019-09-07
[DAWN] Afghanistan's president has postponed a planned visit to Washington early next week where he was to discuss the US-Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
talks on ending America's longest war, a person familiar with the negotiations said on Friday.

The development emerged after the US envoy negotiating with the Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad, abruptly returned to Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
for unexpected talks with the Death Eaters on the deal that he had described as complete just days ago. The agreement "in principle" to begin a US troop withdrawal only needed President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
's approval, Khalilzad said on Monday.

It was not immediately clear why President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
's visit was postponed. The person who spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named was not authorised to talk to news hounds and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Since Khalilzad's announcement, two horrific Taliban boom-mobileings in the Afghan capital, Kabul, one of which killed a US service member and objections to the deal from the Afghan government and several former US ambassadors to Afghanistan have put pressure on Khalilzad as many wonder whether a deal will truly bring peace.

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