KABUL (HRNW) – The Taliban will no longer participate in “fruitless” discussions with the Afghan government over a prisoner swap that had formed a key part of a deal with the US, the insurgents said.
In a tweet first sent in Pashto around midnight Tuesday Afghanistan time (1930 GMT Monday), the Taliban’s political spokesman Suhail Shaheen blamed the administration of President Ashraf Ghani for delaying the prisoner release “under one pretext or another”.
“Therefore, our technical team will not participate in fruitless meetings with relevant sides starting from tomorrow,” Shaheen, who is based in Doha, said in a subsequent tweet in English.
The two foes have been holding talks in Kabul since last week to try to finalise the prisoner swap that was originally supposed to have happened by March 10.
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