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Afghan Govt to Swap 100 Taliban Prisoners for 20 Security Forces
[ToloNews] Afghanistan began on Thursday the process of releasing from jail 100 Taliban...Arabic for students... Islamist faceless myrmidons in a prisoner swap for 20 of its security forces, a security bigshot and a Taliban representative said. It is the first step towards freeing 6,000 prisoners held by the Afghan government and the hard boy group, among confidence-building measures key to the success of a peace deal between the United States and the Taliban to end nearly two decades of war. "It was decided in the morning that 100 Taliban should be released in exchange for 20 members of Afghan cops today," said a bigwig in the office of 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... The names of those to be released had been sent to prison authorities, added the official, who sought anonymity because he had not been authorised to speak to the media. The Taliban have said the swap begins this week as teams from the warring sides work out technical details and logistics for receiving prisoners amid a 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...pandemic. "The technical issues require some time," said Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban front man. "I think the release of 100 Taliban fighters and 20 Afghan security force members will happen either tomorrow or the day after." Both sides confirmed the Taliban prisoners are to be released at the Bagram military base north of the capital, Kabul. But the site for the release of the Afghan cops has yet to be firmed up. A Taliban team of three arrived in Kabul on Tuesday to begin the prisoner exchange process and met Afghan officials despite a widespread lockdown against the virus, which has caused 239 infections and four deaths in Afghanistan. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hailed Tuesday’s developments as "good news", a week after visiting both government leaders in Kabul and Taliban representatives in 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... ’s capital of Doha, where the Afghan faceless myrmidons have an office, to urge the grinding of the peace processor forward. The Taliban want Ghani to release 5,000 prisoners before they will hold talks with the Afghan government. The group, which controls more than 40% of Afghan territory, is arranging transport for families to receive old and sick fighters released from jail, but has no plans to provide financial assistance. Posted by: trailing wife 2020-04-03 |
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