Afghan President Ghani Forms Team for Peace Talks With Taliban
- Negotiating team led by Presidential Chief of Staff Rahimi
- Ghani, Abdullah seeking support for peace at Geneva Conference
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani formed a 12-member team to hold peace talks with the Taliban, in a new push after the U.S. called for the need to end its 17-year-old war.
The road-map “has been driven by a sense of true urgency for peace,” Ghani said Wednesday on Twitter. The peace accord with the militant group can be achieved if constitutional rights of all Afghans are secured and the Taliban cut ties with transnational terrorist networks and militants, he said.