{"id":31589,"date":"2019-02-03T03:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T03:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31589"},"modified":"2019-02-03T03:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T03:22:43","slug":"afghanistan-peace-not-going-to-be-an-easy-process-us-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31589","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan peace &#8216;not going to be an easy process&#8217;: US official"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"71.1910994764\">\n<p>The draft agreement between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">US<\/a> and Taliban may be a significant step towards peace, but the Afghan government, with whom the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/taliban.html\">Taliban<\/a> have refused to negotiate, have dismissed the notion that the Taliban will play a larger role in politics.<\/p>\n<p>A Taliban spokesman has said that it wants a different type of government, one operating under Islamic principles and not the current democratic system established in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Further complicating matters, Afghan President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2014\/07\/profile-ashraf-ghani-20147883632825529.html\">Ashraf Ghani<\/a> has cast doubt on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/pakistan.html\">Pakistan<\/a>&#8216;s commitment to ending the war and has often accused the neighbouring state of providing sanctuaries to Taliban fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Hashem Ahelbarra reports on a potential peace deal that could change everything for a country that&#8217;s been at war for decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draft agreement between the US and Taliban may be a significant step towards peace, but the Afghan government, with whom the Taliban have refused to negotiate, have dismissed the notion that the Taliban will play a larger role in politics. A Taliban spokesman has said that it wants a different type of government, one&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}