KABUL (Pajhwok): US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Process Zalmay Khalilzad has said former president Ashraf Ghani’s abrupt exit last month scuttled a deal under which the Taliban would hold off entering Kabul and negotiate a political transition, according to a media report on Thursday.
In his first interview since the collapse of the 20-year Western-backed government, Zalmay Khalilzad, who brokered a deal with the Taliban last year to withdraw US troops, told the Financial Times that the insurgents had agreed to . . .
