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| Afghan president Ghani signs decree to release Taliban prisoners, important point of deal with US | Afghan president Ghani signs decree to release Taliban prisoners, important point of deal with US |
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| President Ashraf Ghani has signed a decree pardoning Taliban fighters held in Afghan prisons. The move was part of the peace deal Washington made with the group, but official Kabul hesitated to act on it demanding guarantees. | President Ashraf Ghani has signed a decree pardoning Taliban fighters held in Afghan prisons. The move was part of the peace deal Washington made with the group, but official Kabul hesitated to act on it demanding guarantees. |
| Ghani’s spokesman, Sediq Sediqqi, took to Twitter to announce that the Afghan president “has signed the decree that would facilitate the release of the Taliban prisoners in accordance with an accepted framework for the start of negotiation between the Taliban and the Afghan government.” The details of the document will be shared with the public on Wednesday, Sediqqi added. | |
| Under the agreement signed by the US and the Taliban in Qatar last month, as many as 5,000 members of the militant movement were to be released by March 10 to pave way to intra-Afghan talks on the future of the country. | |
| The agreement would allow US and NATO troops to finally withdraw from Afghanistan and end an 18-year-long invasion of the country. | |
| The Taliban have promised to honor the deal, saying that they will release around 1,000 Afghan government troops as part of the swap. | |
| Yet Ghani said a few days later that “there should be an executive guarantee so that these people will not return to violence once they are released,” prompting speculation that this may impact the deal. | |
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