{"id":95053,"date":"2020-09-03T06:50:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/nsc-says-prison-swap-with-the-taliban-completed\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T06:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:50:42","slug":"nsc-says-prison-swap-with-the-taliban-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/nsc-says-prison-swap-with-the-taliban-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"NSC says prison swap with the Taliban completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/september\/3\/Shoray%20Amniyat.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The troubled prison swap between the Taliban and the Afghan government has completed, an official confirmed on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>Javid Faisal, spokesperson, Office of the National Security Council, said in a statement that the government has received the captive commandos held hostage by Taliban. &ldquo; &hellip; after which the government released the remaining 400 (Taliban) convicts, except the few for which our partners have reservations. Diplomatic efforts are ongoing. We expect direct talks to start promptly&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, Reuters reported a government-mandated negotiation team is likely to fly on Thursday to Doha, the initial venue for negotiations. The 400 prisoners were the last of 5,000 whose release was agreed in a February pact between the United States and the Taliban allowing for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note France and Australia expressed opposition towards release of a number of captive Taliban militants over their involvement in killing of their citizens in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The troubled prison swap between the Taliban and the Afghan government has completed, an official confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-95053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95053","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=95053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}