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Taliban-China discuss US-Taliban peace talks

Doha [Qatar], July 9: A landmark Afghan peace negotiations between the influential Afghans and the Taliban, including the government officials, has on Monday agreed to a “roadmap for peace” that could pave ways to put an end to the 18-year-long civil war and crisis in Afghanistan.

According to BBC news reports, a joint statement released calling for an end to casualties and the protection of rights of women within the “Islamic framework”.

The non-binding deal comes as the Taliban and the United States resumed their negotiations on the sidelines of the Afghan peace process.

The seventh round of peace talks between the insurgent group and the US negotiators is likely to be relaunch later on Tuesday. Both sides hoped to reach a deal that would oversee American troops’ withdrawal of Afghanistan in return for the Taliban’s commitment to not to use Afghan soil for terrorism purposes.

Earlier too, the Taliban has refused to hold direct dialogues with the Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani-led government until Washington announces its final timetable for troops’ withdrawal from the region.

On Monday, US special representative for Afghan peace reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters, “Afghans meeting with the Taliban was a big success.”

The Afghan Women’s Network executive director Mary Akrami told AFP news agency: “It’s not an agreement, it’s a foundation to start the discussion. The good part was that both sides agreed.”

The so-called “roadmap for peace” eventually based on conditions including regional powers’ “zero interference” and the return of displaced people. The joint statement further stressed Kabul was “suffering daily”.

“Afghanistan shall not be the witness of another war in the country and [an] intra-Afghan agreement between different levels of the society is vital and crucial,” it said.

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