The Taliban movement revealed today, Saturday, that it held a meeting with the commander of the American forces in Afghanistan, General Skat Miller, regarding the implementation of the peace agreement signed between the movement and Washington in the Qatari capital, Doha, at the end of February.
Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen said that the movement held a detailed meeting on Friday with Major General Miller on the implementation of the peace agreement signed in Doha.
Shaheen added on Twitter that the meeting dealt with the attacks and assaults that take place in non-combat areas and "we demanded that they be stopped", without mentioning the location of the meeting.
Also, a US military spokesman said Miller had a meeting with Taliban leaders, and that they had discussed "reducing violence", but gave no further details.
In early April, a Taliban delegation consisting of three people arrived in the capital, Kabul, to hold talks with the government on a prisoner exchange, in a step the first of its kind since the movement's rule was overthrown in 2001.
The Afghan authorities released 100 Taliban, as part of the agreement between the movement and the United States, pending the implementation of the remaining steps by the parties concerned.
It is noteworthy that the Taliban and the American administration signed on February 29 in Doha an agreement paving the way according to a timetable for the gradual withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in exchange for guarantees from the movement.
The agreement provides for the release of about 5,000 Taliban prisoners, compared to about 1,000 prisoners from the Afghan government.
Afghanistan has been plagued by a war that has been going on since October 2001, when a Washington-led international military alliance toppled the Taliban, because it was linked to al Qaeda, which claimed attacks in the United States on September 11 of the same year.