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Prisoner Swap Did Not Take Place: Taliban

15th November, 2019 · admin · 5 Comments

Ariana: The Taliban militant group has confirmed that the exchange of Haqqani network prisoners with the two kidnapped professor of American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) did not take place. In a phone call with Ariana News, the group’s spokesman Zabihulla Mjujaheed said, Anas Haqqani, Hafiz Rashid and Mali Khan were expected to be transferred to Qatar

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Anas Haqqani, Taliban prisoner release |
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Haqqani Prisoners Returned to Bagram Prison: Source

14th November, 2019 · admin

Tolo News: A source said that the prisoner exchange of captured Haqqani Network members Anas Haqqani, Hafiz Rashid and Mali Khan for two kidnapped professors from the American University of Afghanistan, did not take place. Three days earlier, President Ghani announced that the three Haqqani Network members would be “conditionally” released. According to a source who

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Security, Taliban | Tags: Anas Haqqani, Taliban prisoner release |
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MPs describe Ghani’s Taliban prisoner swap an act of treason

13th November, 2019 · admin

Ariana: Afghan lawmakers on Wednesday described the release of Taliban’s top prisoners by President Ashraf Ghani as a national treason. Nilofar Ibrahimi, a member of parliament from Badakhshan province, said it was “a shameful deal” for the releasing of the killers of Afghan people. “If peace is an excuse, the releasing of 850 prisoners was enough.

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Security, Taliban | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Taliban prisoner release |
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Afghan Government Releases Militants In Apparent Exchange For American, Australian Captives

12th November, 2019 · admin · 2 Comments

By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan November 12, 2019 KABUL — The Afghan government has released three key Taliban prisoners, including Anas Haqqani, the younger brother of Sirajjuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, in exchange for two professors of the American University of Afgahnistan in Kabul, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has announced. The prisoners

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Anas Haqqani, Ashraf Ghani, Jalaluddin Haqqani, prisoner swap, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Zalmay Khalilzad |
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Pakistan Prefers Weak Gov’t in Kabul, Says US Congressional Report

7th November, 2019 · admin · 16 Comments

Ariana: Pakistan prefers a weak government in Kabul and has played an active, and by many accounts, a negative role in Afghan affairs for decades, a U.S. Congressional report has said. In its latest report on Afghanistan, the independent and bipartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) identified Pakistan, the most important neighbor of Afghanistan. However, it said,

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban |
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Sources: Taliban Wants ‘80 Prisoners for 2 Expat Hostages’

30th October, 2019 · admin

Tolo News: The Taliban has demanded the release of 80 prisoners, including Anas Haqqani and Hafiz Rashid–two leaders of the Haqqani Network–for a swap with two US professors, sources close to the Taliban said on Wednesday. The sources said a prisoner exchange would offer a restart to the US and Taliban peace talks that were halted

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Anas Haqqani, Hafiz Rashid, hostage, prisoner swap |
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Afghan Government Is Not Releasing Anas Haqqani: Sediqqi

14th October, 2019 · admin · 1 Comment

Ariana: The Afghan government says it has no plan to release any Taliban prisoners including Anas Haqqani, a high-profile member of the Haqqani Network. The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that the U.S. and Taliban representatives have begun discussing ways to resume the Afghan peace talks. The report added that the two sides have

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Peace Talks, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Anas Haqqani, Sediq Sediqqi |
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Afghanistan cannot be put together: US candidate Biden

14th September, 2019 · admin

1TV: US presidential hopeful Joe Biden has said that Afghanistan is three countries and it cannot be put together. Speaking at a debate, Democratic Biden, who is a former US vice president, claimed that Pakistan owns three provinces in the east of Afghanistan. “Pakistan owns the three counties — the three provinces in the east. They’re

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Pakistan takeover of Afghanistan via Taliban |
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Pakistani Duplicity Caused the United States to Lose in Afghanistan

22nd May, 2019 · admin

The National Interest: Pakistan’s objectives for Afghanistan have always been different than those of the United States. Not only has Pakistan not helped the United States in Afghanistan, but from the very beginning through its support of the Taliban, Pakistan has actively worked against our interests and is responsible for prolongation of the war and the

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: ISI |
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Thirty-three Pakistani members of Taliban killed in Afghanistan’s Ghazni

14th May, 2019 · admin

1TV: Thirty-three Pakistani members of the Taliban were killed in an operation in Afghanistan’s central-eastern Ghazni province last night, officials said Tuesday. They were among 42 Taliban insurgents who were killed in a joint operation by Afghan Special Forces and international forces in Sardi area of Andar district, the provincial governor’s office said in a statement.

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Posted in Haqqani Network, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Ghazni |
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