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Govt Releases 317 Taliban Prisoners, Total 4,917
[ToloNews] The Afghan government has released 317 Taliban ...Arabic for students... prisoners in the past two days from Parwan and other provinces, bringing the total to 4,917, the National Security Council tweeted on Sunday. "Release will continue until the total reaches 5,100," it said. On Friday, the first day of Eid, 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... ordered the release of 500 Taliban prisoners in response to the group’s three-day ceasefire announcement. Ghani said the 500 prisoners would be released within the next four days, but they are not prisoners on the Taliban's list. The Taliban list includes detainees that the Afghan government has said are accused of serious crimes. As a solution, the US has proposed that hundreds of Taliban prisoners be transferred to house arrest in a supervised facility when they are freed from Afghan jails, Rooters reported on Friday, citing three bigwig sources said. The report said the move was proposed to end the deadlock that is holding up the intra-Afghan negotiations. The proposal for Taliban fighters accused of conducting some of the bloodiest attacks in Afghanistan to be placed in a location where they would be under both Taliban and Afghan government surveillance was presented this week to the warring Afghan sides by top US diplomats, the sources said as quoted by Rooters. The Rooters report says that the diplomats are trying to kickstart peace negotiations in Doha that have been delayed over the prisoner issue. The completion of the prisoner exchange was part of the agenda of US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad’s meeting in Kabul on July 29. Related: Taliban prisoners: 2020-08-01 Ghani Orders Release of 500 Taliban Prisoners Taliban prisoners: 2020-07-29 Ghani: '10,708 ANDSF Killed and Wounded Since Feb. 29' Taliban prisoners: 2020-07-25 Taliban ready for intra-Afghan dialogue immediately after Eid Posted by: trailing wife 2020-08-03 |
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