{"id":95093,"date":"2020-09-10T05:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T05:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/khalilzad-says-spoilers-attempting-to-disrupt-peace-processes\/"},"modified":"2020-09-10T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T05:23:36","slug":"khalilzad-says-spoilers-attempting-to-disrupt-peace-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/khalilzad-says-spoilers-attempting-to-disrupt-peace-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad says \u2018spoilers\u2019 attempting to disrupt peace processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/september\/10\/khalilzad.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Zalmay Khalilzad has said as peace talks near, &lsquo;spoilers&rsquo; are becoming more desperate in their attempt to disrupt this historic opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>The US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation said in a series of tweets that the attack on Vice President Amrullah Saleh&#39;s convoy is the latest example of it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;History has shown that when the opportunity for peace is close, spoilers will go to no end to try and stop it. Afghans are not falling for their trap&rdquo;, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad said Afghans know a successful peace process is the only antidote to the country&#39;s protracted conflict. &ldquo;Their widespread yearning for peace will be for the two negotiating teams and their leaders&#39; to satisfy&rdquo;, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry of Interior, the explosives used in attack on the Vice President have been used by the Haqqani Network in a number of terrorist attacks in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a member of the Afghan government&rsquo;s delegation set for talks with the Taliban in Doha told Salam Watandar the team from Kabul was likely to depart for the Qatari capital on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban said earlier this week they would not start the intra-Afghan talks until all of their inmates are freed.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Zalmay Khalilzad has said as peace talks near, \u2018spoilers\u2019 are becoming more desperate in their attempt to disrupt this historic opportunity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-95093","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\/95093","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=95093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}