Taliban Plan To Present A Written Peace Proposal To The Afghan Government Side As Soon As Next Month

FILE PHOTO: Doha hosts intra-Afghan talks  

Reuters: Exclusive-Taliban aim to present written peace plan at talks as soon as next month 

KABUL (Reuters) -The Taliban plan to present a written peace proposal to the Afghan government side as soon as next month, a spokesman for the Islamist insurgents said even as they make major territorial gains in the breach left by departing foreign forces. 

Hundreds of Afghan security force members have fled into neighbouring Tajikistan in the face of Taliban advances since the United States vacated its main Afghan base, centrepiece of U.S. and NATO might for almost two decades in the country, as part of a plan to withdraw all foreign troops by Sept. 11. 

While the transfer of Bagram Air Base to the Afghan army added momentum to a Taliban drive to seize control over new districts, Taliban leaders renewed the long stalled talks with Afghan government envoys in Qatar's capital Doha last week.  

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WNU Editor: I remember the mujaheddin were making the same peace proposals and peace plans in the 1980s. They were never serious. I expect the same with this "peace plan".