Published 09:15 IST, September 10th 2019
Donald Trump announces that Taliban peace negotiation is "dead"
Donald Trump declared at the White House that the Afghanistan peace negotiation with the Taliban is "dead" after almost coming to accordance in Qatar.
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Donald Trump declared at White House that Afghanistan peace negotiation with Taliban is "de," stating that United States h hit armed grouper harder in last four days than y h in last 10 years.
"y (talks with Taliban) are de. As far as I'm concerned, y're de," Trump told reporters at White House on Monday.
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Donald Trump left world astounded on Saturday after US President me a Twitter anuncement of cancellation of a "secret meeting" with Taliban and Afghanistan counterpart Ashraf Ghani at Camp David near Washington, just a few days prior of 9/11 anniversary. decision to dump meeting came after Taliban claimed ar bomb attack in capital city of Kabul that killed an American soldier and 11 ors.
Bloody attacks have ravd Kabul over last several weeks, towards end of peace talks and violence is expected to grow considering political uncertainties of region.
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"y ( Taliban) thought that (y) h to kill people in order to put mselves in a little better negotiating position... You can't do that with me," Trump said while responding to a question about his decision to cancel talks. "So, y de as far as I'm concerned," he said. "We have hit Taliban harder in last four days than y have been hit in over 10 years. So that's way it is."
Donald Trump said that decision to invite Taliban to Camp David was his, and so was call to cancel it after. Justifying move, president underlined that he did t want meeting to happen under circumstances "where y (Taliban) go around and try and make mselves a little bit more important by killing a soldier and also a total of 12 people".
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Taliban, Donald Trump said, did a mistake. "We want to get out (of Afghanistan). But we'll get out at right time," he said.
"We have been serving as policemen in Afghanistan, and that was t meant to be job of our Great Soldiers, finest on earth," Trump tweeted earlier. "Over last four days, we have been hitting our Enemy harder than at any time in last ten years!"
United States-Taliban peace negotiation
decision to call off peace negotiation with Taliban came after Donald Trump called off meeting with Taliban after being on 'threshold' of agreement.
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US President was called a "traitor" over revelation of a probable "secret meeting" with Taliban just days ahe of 18th anniversary of September 11. More than 2,400 U.S. troops have been killed since U.S. inved Afghanistan to go after Taliban. Taliban was also harboring Al-Qaida leers responsible for 9/11.
draft that was accorded by both parties last week could have withdrawn 5,000 American soldiers over coming months in exchange for an assurance that Afghanistan will t be used as a base to perpetrate terror attacks on United States or ir allies.
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Taliban's reaction
Taliban called decision to abolish talks as 'unbelievable' and furr went on to say that Donald Trump's 'disappointing' tweets 'damd his credibility.'
Suhail Shaheen, spokesperson for Taliban's political office located in Doha, Qatar tweeted in Arabic saying that leers of both delegations received text regarding finalisation of peace negotiation, and same was sent to Qatar. He furr ded that everyone was happy with agreement and Qatar agreed to anunce deal.
Suhail Shaheen also said, “However, disappointing tweets by President Trump are unbelievable and damd his credibility.
(With PTI inputs)
08:30 IST, September 10th 2019