{"id":3436,"date":"2021-05-22T04:45:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T04:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2021-05-22T04:45:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T04:45:54","slug":"supreme-state-council-key-to-boost-peace-efforts-ismail-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=3436","title":{"rendered":"Supreme State Council Key to Boost Peace Efforts: Ismail Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong>(TOLO News): Mohammad Ismail Khan, a former mujahedeen leader and former minister of energy and water, on Friday said that the establishment of the Supreme State Council is important for accelerating the peace process and that the final list for members of the body will be announced Monday. <\/strong>\u201cIf consensus is achieved, of course, the Taliban will also accept it to enter into dialogue with such people,\u201d Ismail Khan said. \u201cAt the same time, the knowledge of these people (members of state council) can be a guiding principle for the government.\u201d Meanwhile, President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the High Council for National Reconciliation in an interview with the Washington Post have said that the Taliban hasn\u2019t been serious about engaging in the peace process and that the group still maintains ties with al Qaeda. The two leaders said that the Taliban will not win militarily. \u201cOur priority is to make peace. If the Taliban insists on a violent takeover, they will face not just the Afghan security and defense forces, but also the Afghan people. People don\u2019t want the Taliban. Ask people who have experienced their rule,\u201d Ghani said as quoted by the Washington Post. He said that Afghan political leaders in the Republic side are united in their position against the Taliban. Ghani said that the Taliban is increasing violence everywhere. \u201cThey are assassinating and targeting civilian actors. They\u2019ve grown up outside normal families in madrassas in the absence of women, so women have been construed as a threat to them,\u201d he said in the interview. Abdullah, meanwhile, cast on the Taliban\u2019s intention for peace. \u201cSo far, the Taliban has not been serious in their negotiations,\u201d Abdullah said as quoted by the Washington Post. The deputy head of the reconciliation council, Assadullah Saadati, on Thursday said that discussions are underway between the government and political leaders about the structure and authorities of the Supreme State Council. Saadati said the political leaders and parties want the Supreme State Council to be a powerful, decision-making body so it can decide on political and security matters, foreign policy and other areas of national interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(TOLO News): Mohammad Ismail Khan, a former mujahedeen leader and former minister of energy and water, on Friday said that the establishment of the Supreme State Council is important for accelerating the peace process and that the final list for members of the body will be announced Monday. \u201cIf consensus is achieved, of course, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}