WASHINGTON – US special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has admittedfailure of peace talks with the Taliban reportedly calling the process“dead”.
This was stated by Representative of Democratic chairman of House ForeignAffairs Committee, Eliot Engel at a public hearing after Khalilzad’sappearance on Thursday.
Engel said “we have learned that president Donald Trump up-ended the dealand that the peace deal evidently is dead”.
Earlier, Khalilzad briefed members of the US Congress behind closed doorsabout of the specifics of the US-Taliban negotiations, and thecircumstances that led to the scuttling of the deal by President Trump.
The US chief negotiator held nine rounds of talks with the Taliban in Dohaand UAE in a year in which he finalized a deal in principle but the UnitedStates discontinued negotiations with the group.
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The hearing comes weeks after the US president abruptly cancelled peacetalks with Taliban over killing of an American soldier in the Afghancapital Kabul.
Afghan special envoy confirms Taliban talks ‘dead’Afghanistan has been marred by a string of deadly Taliban-claimed attacksfollowing the collapse of peace talks with the US as they continue toreject acknowledging the Afghan government.
