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‘No commitment’ to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners: Ghani

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01 March, 2020, 05:10 pm
Last modified: 01 March, 2020, 06:05 pm

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‘No commitment’ to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners: Ghani

BSS/AFP
01 March, 2020, 05:10 pm
Last modified: 01 March, 2020, 06:05 pm
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
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."

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