(MENAFN- Afghanistan Times) AT News
KABUL: A source close
to the ongoing peace negotiations between Taliban and the US diplomats, have
said that the talks had been lengthened as the sides are unable to agree on a
complete US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the release of 5,000 Taliban
fighters from government custody.
Suhail Shahin,
spokesman of the militants' political office in Qatar said Wednesday that
negotiations were going on and the details would be announced later.
'Late yesterday
(Tuesday), honorable Mullah Baradar Akhund, honorable Sher Mohammad Abbas
Stanakzai and honorable Mullah Amir Khan Mottaqi met with Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad
and Gen. Scott Miller in Doha, discussing next steps. The two teams are
expected to hold joint session,' Shahin said, without elaborating.
The statements come
amid reports that Taliban and the US have got a final agreement and the deal
would be signed soon. The reports say that the two sides were negotiating on
the venue of signing the deal.
'The talks over date
and venue for signing the peace deal continued Wednesday in Qatar,' said
Maulavi Qalamuddin, minister of vice and virtue in Taliban's government. 'Of
course everything was not resolved. The details on the date and venue of
signing ceremony are not simple matters. It is very important that who is going
to sign it and where it is signed. Who should be present at the ceremony. Which
countries should monitor and which ones should guarantee.'
He said that American
negotiators had been haggling on the number of their soldiers for protection of
the US embassy in the past nine rounds of talks, but Taliban did not agree.
Taliban rejected
Khalilzad's ceasefire demand before signing of the peace deal.
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