Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday signed a decree to release a final batch of 'hardcore' Taliban prisoners demanded by the militants, sources told Reuters, paving the way for long-awaited peace talks to begin in Qatar.
KABUL - Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday signed a decree to release a final batch of “hardcore” Taliban prisoners demanded by the militants, sources told Reuters, paving the way for long-awaited peace talks to begin in Qatar.
The war has ground on since U.S.-backed Afghan forces ousted the Islamist Taliban government in late 2001. U.S. Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who reached an agreement with the Taliban in February for the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops, welcomed the development, having spent months trying to bring the militant movement to the negotiating table with the government.
The Taliban had demanded the release of the last 400 of 5,000 in total as a condition for joining the peace talks.
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