{"id":90905,"date":"2019-06-16T07:32:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T07:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-decline-chinese-call-for-ceasefire\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:11:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:11:52","slug":"taliban-decline-chinese-call-for-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-decline-chinese-call-for-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban decline Chinese call for ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"371\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/June\/16\/Taliban r.jpg\" width=\"660\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Analysts believe the Taliban insurgents have declined Chinese call for ceasefire in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Based on media reports, Mulla Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban&rsquo;s deputy chief and head of their office in Qatar, recently held a meeting with a Chinese delegation in China.<\/p>\n<p>Faiz Mohammad Zaland, an analyst on political affairs, said besides discussing other matters, the Chinese urged the Taliban to announce a ceasefire in Afghanistan, but the insurgents turned down the request. Waheed Mujda, a former Taliban-era official, confirmed that the Chinese officials indeed urged the Taliban to ceasefire. He added the Taliban said they cannot ceasefire as long as foreign troops are stationed in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In views of political commentators, the wayward attitude and irregular meetings by the Taliban have further complicated the fragile peace process.<\/p>\n<p>Shah Baaz, professor at the Kabul University, said all regional and international efforts for peace in Afghanistan should be well-organized and properly synchronized. He said polarization of the process would only agrevate the situation.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the top U.S. peace negotiator, Zalmay Khalilzad, Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, has embarked on a trip to a number of capitals in connection the peace talks. Khalilzad also held meetings with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and other officials in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Analysts believe the Taliban insurgents have declined Chinese call for ceasefire in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}