An Afghan political expert said, during US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s visit to Kabul, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani pledged to release 7,000 Taliban prisoners.
Davood Abedi, a political expert close to the Taliban, told TOLO news Afghanistan, Ghani had pledged to release 7,000 Taliban prisoners during a recent visit by Anthony Blinken and that the United Nations was currently consulting. To remove the names of Taliban leaders from the blacklist.
The Taliban said in a statement three days ago that the United States had pledged to release 7,000 prisoners during the Doha peace talks. At the same time, the names of the leaders are being removed from the blacklist, which has not been done so far.
Abedi adds: The withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan according to the schedule set by the US President is also faced with doubts. Because an American company is currently contracting for more than $ 900 million by 2022 or beyond at Bagram Airport in Afghanistan, which casts doubt on the exit process.
According to IRNA, this issue comes at a time when Amrullah Saleh, the first vice president of Afghanistan, has previously called the release of about 6,000 Taliban prisoners before the Doha meeting the biggest mistake of the government.
Although the Afghan government and officials did not say anything about the release of Taliban prisoners and the removal of the group’s leaders from the blacklist during a recent visit to Blinken, the State Department has reinforced speculation by releasing a picture of Blinken and the Afghan president. In this meeting, two people have been raised.
