NEW DELHI: As a tenuous Eid ceasefire ended in Afghanistan, a multiple car bomb assault by Islamic State on a Jalalabad prison on Sunday that saw an attempted escape by over a thousand Taliban prisoners only helped justify President Ghani’s unwillingness to release the last of the 400 Taliban detainees on the Taliban Council list, a move that has deepened the shadow over intra-Afghan talks...[read more]
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