The Inter-Afghan Talks: Transforming the Taliban
... Festival spurred renewed attempts to achieve a truce, but to no avail. In the meantime, Pakistan got a new prime minister, whom his enemies have dubbed Imran “Taliban” Khan. On Sunday, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan announced a temporary ceasefire with the radical Taliban (banned in the Russian Federation) on the occasion of the Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bairam) Festival. Moreover, his office proposed a three-month long truce, which, given the real state of affairs on the ground, looked quite ...
24.08.2018