(DID NEWS): The process of releasing Taliban prisoners was suspended Saturday over lack of security guarantees, according to reports. \u201cWe are ready to start the process the way it is described in the presidential decree but we won\u2019t release anyone if there is no guarantee that they will not return to fighting,\u201d said Javid Faisal, spokesman for the Afghan government\u2019s national security advisor. \u201cThe Taliban have to show flexibility \u201c The Taliban militants say the agreement requires the government to release 5,000 prisoners before talks begin, according to Reuters. \u201cOur stance on the prisoners\u2019 release is crystal clear. They should be released without any pre-condition the way it is mentioned on the US-Taliban peace agreement,\u201d Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson. \u201cWe have not agreed to any extra dialogue or conditions.\u201d Earlier this week President Ashraf Ghani agreed to free 1,500 prisoners on Saturday with plans to release the remainder once conditions were met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(DID NEWS): The process of releasing Taliban prisoners was suspended Saturday over lack of security guarantees, according to reports. \u201cWe are ready to start the process the way it is described in the presidential decree but we won\u2019t release anyone if there is no guarantee that they will not return to fighting,\u201d said Javid Faisal, […]<\/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-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","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=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}