Afghan President Ashraf Ghani
Kabul … News Time
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani postpones a planned visit to Washington according to Afghan media, President Ashraf Ghani was to leave for Washington on Saturday with a 13-member delegation where he met with President Trump on Monday, but the Afghan president postponed the visit. According to Afghan media, after the car bombing in Kabul yesterday, President Ashraf Ghani, in his statement, spoke to the Afghan Taliban, saying peace with the Taliban is meaningless. Despite a deal between the Afghan Taliban and the United States, two major blasts occurred in Kabul in a week that killed civilians, including security personnel. The Afghan president condemned the blast, calling it a criminal act of the Taliban, saying the international community was not silent on such attacks by the militant group. Ashraf Ghani said it was meaningless to expect peace from a group that is still on the verge of killing innocent people. Afghan chief executive Abdullah Abdullah also condemned the attacks, calling it a brutal act and said that the Taliban wanted to further their position in the peace process by conducting such attacks. Such actions will spark hatred for the Taliban among Afghan citizens. Zalma Khalilzad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan confirmed the agreement between the Taliban and the US in an interview to the Afghan news agency. He said the deal was not final until the endorsement of the US president
