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From Global News
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced a ceasefire with Taliban insurgents from Monday to mark the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, days after fighting in the central city of Ghazni and a northern province.
Taliban sources said their leaders had also provisionally agreed a four-day truce during the annual Islamic feast of sacrifice, though supreme leader Sheikh Haibatullah Akhunzada still had to give his final approval.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomed the ceasefire and said the United States was ready to support and facilitate direct peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. “It is time for peace,” he said in a statement.
COMMENT:-
Step 2 in the run up to declaring peace and going home is announcing that it is time for peace and suggesting that the two sides could work matters out just between themselves.
Pompeo says it’s ‘time for peace’ as Afghanistan announces holiday ceasefire with Taliban
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced a ceasefire with Taliban insurgents from Monday to mark the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, days after fighting in the central city of Ghazni and a northern province.
Taliban sources said their leaders had also provisionally agreed a four-day truce during the annual Islamic feast of sacrifice, though supreme leader Sheikh Haibatullah Akhunzada still had to give his final approval.
...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomed the ceasefire and said the United States was ready to support and facilitate direct peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. “It is time for peace,” he said in a statement.
COMMENT:-
Step 2 in the run up to declaring peace and going home is announcing that it is time for peace and suggesting that the two sides could work matters out just between themselves.