{"id":2642,"date":"2020-01-19T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T09:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2020-01-19T09:59:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T09:59:58","slug":"the-war-will-end-when-the-us-withdraws-mullah-badradar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The War Will End When the US Withdraws&#8217;: Mullah Badradar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">(TOLO News): \u201cThe war will end when the US withdraws from Afghanistan,\u201d said Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the founders of the Taliban and the group\u2019s chief negotiator with the US, told FRONTLINE in a Jan. 6 interview in Qatar. Speaking to FRONTLINE correspondent Najibullah Quraishi, Baradar described the US &#8220;invasion&#8221; of Afghanistan as a big mistake. \u201c(The) Americans made a huge mistake by coming to Afghanistan and starting this war in Afghanistan,\u201d Baradar told FRONTLINE. \u201cBecause their main goal was just one person \u2014 Osama bin Laden \u2014 and he is now gone. \u2026We are obliged, as it is our country, to defend it with our lives.\u201d Baradar said, as quoted by FRONTLINE. \u201cThere has been no change in the Taliban in this regard,\u201d Baradar said. \u201cWe accept all the rights that God has granted to women\u2026. Under Islamic law, if they want to live and work, of course we will allow it.\u201d \u00a0But media reports and sources close to the current peace talks in Doha say that the Taliban is open to a temporary reduction in violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TOLO News): \u201cThe war will end when the US withdraws from Afghanistan,\u201d said Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the founders of the Taliban and the group\u2019s chief negotiator with the US, told FRONTLINE in a Jan. 6 interview in Qatar. Speaking to FRONTLINE correspondent Najibullah Quraishi, Baradar described the US &#8220;invasion&#8221; of Afghanistan as [&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-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","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=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}