{"id":93806,"date":"2019-12-13T05:03:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T05:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/khalilzad-announces-a-pause-in-talks-with-taliban\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T05:03:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T05:03:45","slug":"khalilzad-announces-a-pause-in-talks-with-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/khalilzad-announces-a-pause-in-talks-with-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad announces a pause in talks with Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"314\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/December\/13\/Zalmai.JPG\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &ndash; The top U.S. peace negotiator, Zalmay Khalilzad on Friday announced a pause in peace talks with the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation stressed that the &#39;Taliban must show they are willing &amp; able to respond to Afghan desire for peace&#39;. &#39;&#39;When I met the Talibs today, I expressed outrage about yesterday&rsquo;s attack on Bagram, which recklessly killed two and wounded dozens of civilians&#39;&#39;, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad said the U.S. negotiating team is taking a brief pause for the Taliban to consult their leadership on this essential topic.<\/p>\n<p>However the Taliban&#39;s Qatar office spokesman, Suhail Shaheen said in his tweets that the pause was agreed in a meeting between the two sides in &#39;good and positive atmosphere&#39;.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid renewed talks between the U.S. and the Taliban in the Qatari capital, Doha. Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump met his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani during a surprise Thanksgiving visit to American troops in Afghanistan where he claimed his administration had resumed peace talks with the Taliban and that the insurgent group would be willing to observe a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>At least&nbsp;5 people got killed and over 70&nbsp;other, mostly civilians, were injured in Afghanistan on Wednesday following an early morning suicide attack and assault on Bagram Airbase.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 The top U.S. peace negotiator, Zalmay Khalilzad on Friday announced a pause in peace talks with the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-93806","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\/93806","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=93806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}