{"id":2322,"date":"2019-11-16T04:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T04:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2019-11-16T04:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T04:56:32","slug":"prisoner-swap-for-auaf-professors-did-not-work-rula-ghani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=2322","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner Swap For AUAF Professors \u2018Did Not Work\u2019: Rula Ghani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong>(TOLO News): Afghanistan\u2019s First Lady Rula Ghani, while speaking at the US Institute of Peace in Washington DC on Thursday, said that the attempted prisoner swap for professors from the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) \u201cdid not work.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe situation is very complex&#8230;and, as you mentioned, it did not work,\u201d Rula Ghani said in response to a question at the US Institute of Peace. \u201cI am not quite sure why, but probably some party did not do what they promised they are going to do, so, unfortunately, the two professors may not be released.\u201d \u201cBut this is what we are dealing with, this is the kind of people we have to negotiate with, and it\u2019s really delicate,\u201d she said. Kevin King, 63, from the US, and Timothy Weeks, 50, from Australia, were professors at AUAF who were abducted by the Haqqani Network in Kabul in August 2016. Her comments came after a source told TOLOnews on Thursday that the prisoner exchange of captured Haqqani Network members Anas Haqqani, Hafiz Rashid and Mali Khan for two kidnapped professors from the AUAF did not take place. Anas Haqqani, Hafiz Rashid and Haji Mali Khan, leaders of the Haqqani Network, were captured outside of Afghanistan in 2014. Four days earlier, President Ghani announced that the three Haqqani Network members would be \u201cconditionally\u201d released. According to a source who spoke with TOLOnews on Thursday, Anas Haqqani, Hafiz Rashid and Mali Khan have been transferred back to Bagram air base. In the meantime, First Lady Ghani also emphasized the need to negotiate a durable peace accord. \u201cPeace is a long process,\u201d she said. \u201cWhoever thinks it can happen in one or two months is wrong. Even if happens, it will be short-lived.\u201d \u201cWe want peace because the Taliban are Afghans and have the right to be in Afghanistan, but a Taliban rule is not going to happen, not on my watch. Not as long as my husband and I are there,\u201d she said. She said that it\u2019s the right of the people to live in peace and \u201cI hope that\u2014together\u2014we bring peace in Afghanistan.\u201d \u201cAfghanistan is progressing, I am sure there is a lot that still needs to be done, but it\u2019s progressing in the right direction and eventually it will become a good place to live,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TOLO News): Afghanistan\u2019s First Lady Rula Ghani, while speaking at the US Institute of Peace in Washington DC on Thursday, said that the attempted prisoner swap for professors from the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) \u201cdid not work.\u201d \u201cThe situation is very complex&#8230;and, as you mentioned, it did not work,\u201d Rula Ghani said in response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}