{"id":41274,"date":"2019-01-29T17:27:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=41274"},"modified":"2021-05-19T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T09:53:09","slug":"us-taliban-peace-agreement-negotiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-taliban-peace-agreement-negotiation\/","title":{"rendered":"US Taliban Peace Agreement negotiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-international\/us-declares-it-has-agreed-upon-peace-framework-with-taliban\/article26115997.ece\"><strong>US Taliban Peace Agreement negotiation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Issue:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently US and Taliban are engaged in <strong>Doha rounds of talk<\/strong> for negotiation of peace agreement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Broad Contours of Framework for peace agreement between US and Taliban:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Afghanistan should not be used as ground for terrorist attack<\/strong> on US and its allies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Direct talk between Afghan Government and Taliban<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Comprehensive Ceasefire<\/strong> between Afghan Government and Taliban<\/li>\n<li>Settlement of <strong>post conflict political arrangements<\/strong> and nature of post conflict arrangements in Kabul<\/li>\n<li>Potential <strong>changes in constitution<\/strong> of Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mechanisms for peaceful transition to new political order<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>US withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Issues in US-Taliban Doha Talks:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US says <strong>troops withdrawal<\/strong> depends on agreement on other issues and Taliban says no progress on other conditions till US withdraw its troops<\/li>\n<li>Against <strong>India&#8217;s stand<\/strong> of any peace negotiation should be Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled<\/li>\n<li>Terms of cooperation and extent of <strong>influence of Pakistan<\/strong> in ongoing talks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>US objectives in Afghanistan:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, US objectives are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to bring peace in Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>prevent the nation from re-emerging as a haven for terrorists<\/li>\n<li>bring the American forces back home after 17 long years in Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US wants to \u201cstrengthen Afghan sovereignty, independence and prosperity\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Challenges before Zalmay Khalilzad US special representative:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>US President losing patience with Taliban long steadily growing war<\/strong>. US President under consideration to significantly reduce number of troops from current of 14000 troops<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taliban&#8217;s double game of fighting with Afghan security forces and at same time negotiating peace agreement with US<\/strong> Before Doha talk deadly attack in Wardak killing more than hundred afghan security forces<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pakistan geography makes Pakistan critical for either war or peace in Afghanistan and Pakistan&#8217;s double game<\/strong> of providing military troops for fighting Taliban and at same time support to Taliban<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>India&#8217;s Afghanistan policy:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India advocate <strong>any peace negotiation should be afghan-led, afghan-owned and afghan-controlled<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India has <strong>earned strong goodwill<\/strong> among all Afghanistan ethnic groups due to development aid of $3bn which includes mainly social infrastructure projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Way Forwards:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peace Agreement should be quick but with <strong>prudence <\/strong>(Afghan President Ashraf Ghani)<\/li>\n<li>According to Rand Corporation-US based security think tank, final agreements should have following elements:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>An 18-month <strong>transitional government<\/strong> that will oversee power sharing between Afghan government and Taliban<\/li>\n<li>Extension of <strong>US assistance to Afghanistan<\/strong>; Amnesty<\/li>\n<li>Creation of a <strong>high Ulema council which along with the interim government would discuss changes to the Constitution<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>4.<strong>Taliban\u2019s renunciation of links with terrorist organizations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Release of prisoners and <strong>formation of an impartial team to implement the draft deal<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India need strong and active diplomacy engagement with Afghanistan both officially and non- officially and should be strong partner in any peace negotiations and in developmental process<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Taliban Peace Agreement negotiation Issue: Currently US and Taliban are engaged in Doha rounds of talk for negotiation of peace agreement Broad Contours of Framework for peace agreement between US and Taliban: Afghanistan should not be used as ground for terrorist attack on US and its allies Direct talk between Afghan Government and Taliban&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/us-taliban-peace-agreement-negotiation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Taliban Peace Agreement negotiation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704892132},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}