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prisoners’ release process has been halted, the Presidential Palace announced on Monday.
Seddiq Seddiqi, the spokesperson to the Presidential Palace appeared in a presser on Monday, announcing the Taliban prisoners’ release process has been halted as they have not yet released the prisoners from the government side.
Seddiq Seddiqi clarified that if the Taliban completed the release of captured government prisoners, there would not be an obstacle to the Intra-Afghan talks.
On the other hand, several other NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
members have expressed concerns over the release of those Talibs who were engaged in killing their citizens in Afghanistan.
La Belle France and Australia have so far shared their concerns with the Afghan government stating that those under detention has killed some of their nationals, must not be released.
According to Afghan government, 80 out of 400 remaining Taliban prisoners have been released so far.
This comes as, following the Loya Jirga’s decision, 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...
signed a decree to release the dreaded 400 Taliban prisoners.