ISLAMABAD – US President Donald Trump makes new revelations over secrettalks with Afghan Taliban.
President Donald Trump seemed to indicate in a phone-in interview with FoxNews on Saturday morning that the negotiations with the Taliban were backon. Shifting the conversation from domestic US affairs, Trump told newsanchors: “Listen, rebuilding the military, all of the things I’ve done,plus we’ve had peace.
You know we’re pulling way down in Afghanistan. We’re working on anagreement now with the Taliban. Let’s see what happens.”
Trump elaborated on the earlier peace deal and its breakdown to the hostsof the show “Fox & Friends: “The last time I was supposed to have anagreement, then they (the Taliban) thought when they came over, theythought it would be good to kill people so they could negotiate from aposition of strength, TOLO News has reported.
They killed 12 people in order to show their tough guys, and I canceled themeeting. I said, “That’s not what we’re dealing with.” Anyway, I’m pullingback. I just pulled out of Syria, except I kept the oil. If it was okaywith you-,” he said.
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This interview follows the past week’s prisoner exchange of three Haqqaninetwork commanders imprisoned in Afghanistan for two Western professorsheld by the Taliban.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani led the exchange but acknowledged that theswap was closely coordinated with the US. Ghani also stated that theprisoner swap was intended to lay the groundwork for a new set of peacetalks.
After the successful swap, Trump tweeted praise for Ghani’s “courageousdecision” and said, “Let’s hope this leads to more good things on the peacefront like a ceasefire that will help end this long war.”
