{"id":41596,"date":"2019-02-05T10:53:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=41596"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:23:18","slug":"taliban-to-meet-afghan-opposition-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/taliban-to-meet-afghan-opposition-in-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban to meet Afghan Opposition in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/taliban-to-meet-afghan-opposition-in-moscow\/article26168705.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taliban to meet Afghan Opposition in Moscow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Taliban would hold a meeting with Afghanistan\u2019s opposition parties in Moscow, Russia this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Taliban said that it will send a delegation to Russia for a meeting with Afghan Opposition leaders, just days after peace talks with the U.S. that excluded the Kabul government.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two-day meeting in Moscow, will be attended by some of President Ashraf Ghani\u2019s chief political rivals, but excludes government envoys who are tasked with Taliban negotiations. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Taliban\u2019s stand:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A senior Taliban official described the meeting as non-political.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moscow had decided to exclude Afghan government officials to ensure the participation of the Taliban who refuse to hold talks with representatives of President Ashraf Ghani, branding them puppets of the United States.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Afghan government\u2019s stand:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Ghani has appealed to the insurgents to talk after being excluded from discussions between the Taliban and the U.S. in Doha last month that sealed the outlines of a peace deal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senior Afghan government officials warned that talks this week between Taliban militants and opposition politicians betrayed the principles of democracy and Afghanistan\u2019s best interests.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban to meet Afghan Opposition in Moscow News: Taliban would hold a meeting with Afghanistan\u2019s opposition parties in Moscow, Russia this week. Facts: The Taliban said that it will send a delegation to Russia for a meeting with Afghan Opposition leaders, just days after peace talks with the U.S. that excluded the Kabul government. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/taliban-to-meet-afghan-opposition-in-moscow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taliban to meet Afghan Opposition in Moscow<\/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":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704879179},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41596","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=41596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}