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Taliban resume fighting as Eid ceasefire ends
[Al Jazeera] On the final day of a three-day Eid al-Fitr ceasefire, the Taliban...Arabic for students... said they would resume fighting, despite 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 announcement that the government was extending its own ceasefire with the group by 10 days. In the statement on Sunday, the Taliban repeated their preconditions for peace talks, including that they would only negotiate directly with the US and that foreign forces should leave Afghanistan. "Our fighters will now resume their operations across the country against the foreign invaders and their internal puppets," Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid told Al Jazeera. In an unexpected move, Ghani on June 5 announced an unconditional ceasefire with the Taliban until June 20, coinciding with the end of Ramadan. On June 9, the Taliban announced that their fighters would stop attacking Afghan cops for the three days of Eid for the first time in the nearly 17-year conflict. Hundreds of soldiers and coppers have been killed since the Taliban launched their spring offensive in April this year in a bid to control large swaths of the country. Posted by: Fred 2018-06-19 |
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