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Taliban releases another 29 Afghan prisoners
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 10 (Sputnik/ANI): The Taliban said that they have freed another 28 Afghan prisoners as part of efforts to accelerate the mutual release of detained persons with Kabul.
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Afghan Government Releases 1,000 Taliban Members - Security Council
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 9 (Sputnik/ANI): The Afghan government has released 1,000 members of the Taliban movement and expects the group to respond by setting free government security forces personnel and speeding up the preparation of direct talks, the Afghan National Security Council said
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Khalilzad meets Jainshankar, Doval, provides update on US peace efforts in
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad on Thursday met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and provided an update on the US peace and reconciliation efforts in Afgh
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Afghan security council confirms release of over 100 taliban prisoners
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 5 (ANI): The Afghan government has released 102 more Taliban prisoners in line with the US-Taliban peace deal signed in February this year.
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20 Afghan prisoners released in line with Peace Deal, claims Taliban
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 17 (Sputnik/ANI): The Taliban on Thursday released 20 Afghan policemen and members of the armed forces to the central government in the eastern Laghman province, Zabihullah Mujahid, the group's spokesman, said on Friday.
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NATO commander meets Taliban leaders in Qatar to discuss implementation of
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Doha [Qatar], April 11 (Sputnik/ANI) NATO commander in Afghanistan Gen Austin Miller met the Taliban leadership in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss the implementation of a peace deal signed by both parties, a Taliban spokesman said on Saturday.
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Trump's flawed peace deal with Taliban compromises US' credibility in Afgh
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 7 (ANI): It came as a surprise when the Sindh High Court on April 2 overturned and reduced the decade-old murder conviction of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh -- a Pakistan-based Mujahideen accused of killing and video-tapping the slaughter of Wall Street Journal reporte
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Taliban reject Afghan govt's negotiation team
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Mar 28 (Sputnik/ANI): Taliban have rejected the Afghan government's negotiation team, claiming that the list of negotiators goes sideways with the previous agreement between the Taliban and the United States, the militant group said on Saturday in a press release.
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Pompeo meets Taliban officials in Qatar to salvage peace deal
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Mar 24 (ANI): US Secretary of State Micheal Pompeo on Monday made an unannounced visit to Kabul (Afghanistan) and Doha (Qatar) to hold talks with the Afghan government in an effort to prevent the country's peace deal from unwinding, CNN reported.
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Afghanistan releases several prisoners to decongest jails amid COVID-19 co
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Mar 23 (Sputnik/ANI): The Afghan authorities on Sunday decided to release "a number of prisoners" as part of measures undertaken to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease in the country, the presidential palace said in a statement.
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BJD's Sasmit Patra urges govt to rejig geopolitical approach in Afghanista
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 13 (ANI): BJD's Rajya Sabha MP Sasmit Patra has urged the Central government to rejig its geopolitical approach in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the recently negotiated peace deal between the United States and the Taliban which he described as geopolitical disadvanta
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Pakistan wants Taliban to rule Afghanistan, says brother of former Afghan
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 7 (ANI): Sediqullah Rahi, brother of former President of Afghanistan, Dr Najibullah, has said that Pakistan is backing the Taliban to topple the elected government in Kabul.
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