May 05 (The Killid Group) – The Taliban has welcomed the release of the group’s captives by the Afghan government and has urged for speeding up the process.
The group welcomed the release of its 300 inmates by the Afghan government, adding the process should be sped up as an attempt to save lives from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and move toward starting the intra-Afghan negotiations, Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for the office of the insurgents in Qatar, took to Twitter.
Likewise, the Taliban are pledged to continue releasing Afghan government prisoners, Shaheen added.
So far, nearly 750 Taliban prisoners have been released by the Afghan government, and the process will continue until a total of 1,500 of the insurgents are freed from the prisons.
The Taliban, meanwhile, has released a total of 112 government prisoners.
As a confidence-building measure, the Afghan government and the armed group must work with the coordination and approval of all relevant sides to move forward the process of prisoner swap which was a main part of the agreement reached between the United States and the insurgents.
The agreement calls for the release of up to 5,000 jailed Taliban prisoners who were set to be released in exchange for up to 1,000 Afghan government captives by March 10, but the process was delayed due to several reasons.
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