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(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: Doha Accord - US-Taliban Peace Deal

Topic: Doha Accord - US-Taliban Peace Deal

Guest:

Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashwani Kumar Siwach, (Defence and Strategic Expert)
Meera Shankar, (Former Ambassador)
Prof. A. K. Pasha, (Centre for West Asian Studies, JNU)

Topic Description:

US officials and Taliban representatives have signed a final peace deal after months of negotiations in Qatar's capital to end the United States's longest war, fought in Afghanistan. Saturday's agreement, signed in Doha in the presence of leaders from Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, will pave the way for the United States to gradually withdraw its troops. The two sides have long wrangled over the US demand for a ceasefire before the final peace agreement was signed. Earlier on Saturday, the Taliban ordered all its fighters to halt fighting and "refrain from attacks". Mohammed Naeem, a Taliban representative in Doha, described the deal as "a step forward". The US invaded Afghanistan weeks after the September 2001 attacks by the Afghanistan-based al-Qaeda group. More than 2,400 US troops have been killed during the conflict. About 12,000 are still stationed in the country. President Trump has promised to put an end to the conflict.