Taliban Offer Three-Month Truce in Exchange for Prisoner Release
Taliban members attend a ceremony at Bagram Air Base after being released by authorities, in Parwan, Afghanistan, on May 26, 2020.
Photographer: Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The Taliban has offered a three-month ceasefire in return for the release of 7,000 prisoners and the removal of the group’s leaders from United Nations sanctions and blacklists, an Afghan negotiator said Thursday.
Describing the Taliban’s demands as “huge,” Nader Nadery, a member of Afghanistan’s negotiating team told reporters in Kabul. “The experience we faced after the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners was worse, as the war didn’t stop but instead intensified and the killings of people have increased.” The Taliban has not responded to requests for comment