Taliban recalls its negotiators from Kabul hours after they suspended talks on a prisoner exchange process with the Afghan government
Taliban said,"the intentional delays in the release of our prisoners violates the peace agreement, therefore we call back our technical team back from Kabul".
Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for Taliban's political office in Qatar, said "the intentional delays in the release of our prisoners violates the peace agreement, therefore we call back our technical team back from Kabul". The February pact between the United States and the Taliban, under which US-led international forces will withdraw in phases in exchange for Taliban security guarantees, is the best chance yet of ending the 18-year US military involvement in Afghanistan.
A three-member Taliban team had arrived in Kabul last month to begin the prisoner exchange process. It was not clear whether the delegation members came from Qatar or travelled to Kabul from provinces in Afghanistan. But the Taliban, according to the Afghan officials wanted 15 commanders accused of carrying out brutal attacks to be released this week, a demand rejected by the Afghan government.
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