{"id":94112,"date":"2020-02-02T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/what-is-delaying-inking-of-u-s-taliban-deal\/"},"modified":"2020-02-02T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T08:08:10","slug":"what-is-delaying-inking-of-u-s-taliban-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/what-is-delaying-inking-of-u-s-taliban-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"What is delaying inking of U.S. \u2013 Taliban deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is delaying inking of U.S. &ndash; Taliban deal?<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/February\/2\/Arg &amp; Zalmai.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; A number of political figures say the Taliban are ready to sign a peace agreement, but the U.S. and some other forces want to delay the signing of the peace accord.<\/p>\n<p>Political analyst Faiz Mohammad Zeland said the Taliban have been ready to sign a peace agreement, but some figures in Kabul who see their interests in the ongoing war are trying to delay the peace agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Qalamuddin, a former Taliban member, said that whenever the Taliban prepare to sign a peace agreement, the U.S present new conditions so the signing of the peace agreement delays.<\/p>\n<p>Sohail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban&#39;s political bureau in Qatar, also told the media yesterday that the reason for the delay in the peace process was the new demands by the Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, said during a meeting with Afghan government officials that the peace process has not progressed, Najia Anwari, a spokesman for the State Ministry for Peace, told Salam Watandar.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Afghan government repeatedly stated that the delegation is ready for inter-Afghan talks, and that the names of the delegation will be announced as the talks begin.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 A number of political figures say the Taliban are ready to sign a peace agreement, but the U.S. and some other forces want to delay the signing of the peace accord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94112","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\/94112","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=94112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}