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Afghanistan
Saleh Blames Released Taliban for Violence, No More 'Blind Trust'
2021-02-12
[ToloNews] Afghanistan’s First Vice President Amrullah Saleh said on Thursday that those Taliban
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prisoners who were released from the Afghan government jails as part of the US-Taliban peace deal are playing a major role in the rising security threat to the country.

Saleh added that he is ready to prove case-by-case that the released prisoners are involved in the current violence against the people.

However,
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a number of citizens have said that the dramatic surge in the scale of violence and a rise in the assassinations is rooted in the failure of the Afghan security and intelligence agencies.

Referring to the recent spate of assassinations on the employees of the government institutions and the recent attacks on the employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development and Ministry of Agriculture, Saleh said that those Taliban members who were released are behind these attacks, and that the Afghan government will no longer release more Taliban members from the jails in good faith.

"We are ready to prove case-by-case that the 5,500 Taliban prisoners that we released for peace--they are somehow involved in the surge in violence and murders of the people—this trust was blind and without a strategy, we will not repeat it again," Saleh wrote on Facebook.

Based on the statistics, over the past two weeks, at least 30 people were killed in Kabul as a result of assassinations, and 30 more maimed. The majority of the victims were civilians.

The Taliban, however, has denied any role in the attacks.

Based on TOLOnews statistics, 270 people were killed and 347 more maimed in January alone across the country as a result of 214 explosions, group attacks and shootings.
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