{"id":7217,"date":"2019-07-28T15:03:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T10:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7217"},"modified":"2019-07-28T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T10:04:27","slug":"taliban-reject-direct-talks-with-afghan-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7217","title":{"rendered":"Taliban reject direct talks with Afghan government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Intra-Afghan talks will start only after a foreign force withdrawal is announced,&#8221; said Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban&#8217;s political office in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Afghanistan&#8217;s state minister for peace affairs Abdul Salam Rahimi said the government would be represented by a 15-member delegation during direct talks with the Taliban in the coming two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have been holding peace talks with the United States for nearly a year but have refused to meet with the government, which it views as a puppet regime.<\/p>\n<p>US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is currently visiting Kabul, tweeted that another round of &#8220;intra-Afghan&#8221; talks will occur &#8220;after we conclude our own agreements.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Intra-Afghan talks will start only after a foreign force withdrawal is announced,&#8221; said Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the Taliban&#8217;s political office in Qatar. On Saturday, Afghanistan&#8217;s state minister for peace affairs Abdul Salam Rahimi said the government would be represented by a 15-member delegation during direct talks with the Taliban in the coming two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7219,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions\/7219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}