Afghan president wants Taliban to help fight Islamic State
Ashraf Ghani wants Taliban fighters to integrate into the country’s armed forces help to take on both IS and Al-Qaeda in the region
07 October 2020 - 12:30
Kabul — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani wants Taliban fighters to integrate into the country’s armed forces and join efforts to eliminate Islamic State (IS) militants, the first clear indication of the government’s vision for its defence and security apparatus if peace talks in Qatar progress.
“The reason we want peace with Taliban” is because once the militants are re-integrated into Afghan society “we will be able to isolate these much more larger networks” of the IS and Al-Qaeda, Ghani said at the Doha-based think-tank Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies...
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