Afghan war: Zalmay Khalilzad ‘to reflect’ on what US could have done differently
NEW DELHI: Exiled Afghanistan President Abdul Ghani believed that the Taliban won't be ready to win militarily until that they had actually surrounded Kabul, US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said.
In a candid interview to policy , Khalilzad — who was the American face in talks with Taliban — said that he will still reflect how and where the US went wrong within the last 20-odd years of its war on terror in Afghanistan In the interview, Khalilzad gave an in depth account of the unnerving final moments before the autumn of Kabul, the protracted negotiations with Ghani and his reflection on the way things unfolded within the war-ravaged nation.
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Taliban agreed to two-week transition'
Khalilzad said that when Taliban were encircling Kabul within the f...