Taliban hand prisoner list to US Delegation – Spokesman
Kabul/Sputnik/UNI: The Taliban have handed to a US delegation a list of 5,000 fighters they want released from Afghan prisons, the spokesman for the militant group’s Qatar office said on Tuesday.
"We have given to the American delegation a detailed list of 5,000 people that cannot be forged or edited," Suhail Shaheen tweeted.
He said their members, "be they in a desert or in prisons," should be handed over to them for identity verification, "and they should release only those people whom we listed."
The prisoner release was mentioned as a precondition in the US-Taliban peace deal — signed in Doha in late February — for the start of intra-Afghan talks.
The Taliban said they would not engage in a dialogue with Kabul until their demand was met. Afghan President Asharf Ghani, who was excluded from the talks, has so far rejected the precondition.
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