(Afghanistan Times): Russian special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov said after signing a peace deal with US, the Taliban are ready to hold direct talks with Afghan government and politicians, where a short time ceasefire would be also considered. \u201cThe peace agreement\u2019s platform is unclear. A short time or a long time ceasefire is a separate issue without US, among Afghans,\u201d he said. He cited the 2018 short time truce- a ceasefire agreement that has been made between government and Taliban- as the group\u2019s control on its fighters in the front lines. \u201cMay be some Taliban commanders don\u2019t want the agreement between Taliban, politicians and government lead to a ceasefire,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cin such situation, the negotiators should be Afghans and they should have a preplan to be discussed this on table.\u201d US diplomats, led by Chief Negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad have held 10th rounds of peace talks with the Taliban Qatar Based Political Office. The talks have been mainly focusing on US troops pull out, intra-Afghan-talks, Ceasefire and Taliban\u2019s assurance of not using the country against West. Last September, the US President Donald Trump has called off the peace negotiations following a Taliban attack that killed an American and 11 other innocent people. But talks have been restarted since then after Trump in his surprised visit to Afghanistan, has announced the resumption of peace talks. The Afghan government has been denying the Taliban\u2019s offer of reduction in violence instead of a ceasefire agreement- a truce agreement prior to any peace deal is a demand that Presidential Palace has placed in its seven points\u2019 peace plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Afghanistan Times): Russian special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov said after signing a peace deal with US, the Taliban are ready to hold direct talks with Afghan government and politicians, where a short time ceasefire would be also considered. \u201cThe peace agreement\u2019s platform is unclear. A short time or a long time ceasefire is a […]<\/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-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","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=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}