‘No commitment’ to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners: Ghani
File Photo: Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani attends a two-day conference on Afghanistan at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, November 27, 2018. Reuters/Denis Balibouse
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani pushed back Sunday against a key component of the US-Taliban deal signed a day earlier, saying he had not committed to releasing any insurgent prisoners.
"There is no commitment to releasing 5,000 prisoners," Ghani told a press conference.
"This is the right and the self-will of the people of Afghanistan. It could be included in the agenda of the intra-Afghan talks, but cannot be a prerequisite for talks."
