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US, Taliban negotiators need more time: Shanahan

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KABUL (Pajhwok): America’s acting defense secretary has commended the job being done by US-led coalition troops and Afghan National Security Forces to stabilise the war-devastated country.

Patrick Shanahan said there was no change to the administration’s policy of 4R-plus-S plan -- realign, reinforce, regionalize and reconcile.

“I think that's what we're seeing now, the reconcile piece -- and then, obviously, sustainment. I just emphasise no change to the 4Rs-plus-S,” the secretary told reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday . . .

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