{"id":399574,"date":"2019-03-15T06:20:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T05:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-afghanistan-clashes-with-us-over-taliban-talks-exclusion\/"},"modified":"2019-03-15T06:20:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T05:20:50","slug":"presstv-afghanistan-clashes-with-us-over-taliban-talks-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-afghanistan-clashes-with-us-over-taliban-talks-exclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Afghanistan clashes with US over Taliban talks exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States and Afghanistan have clashed publicly over Washington\u2019s decision to exclude Kabul from its ongoing peace talks with the Taliban, a move that a senior Afghan official says is aimed at \u201cdelegitimizing\u201d the Afghan government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib, who was on a visit to the US, said Thursday that US peace negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad either \u201cdoesn\u2019t know how to negotiate\u201d or has alternative objectives in mind other than peace.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Knowing Ambassador Khalilzad\u2019s history, his own personal history, he has ambitions in Afghanistan. He was wanting to run for president twice,&#8221; Mohib said before meeting senior American officials in Washington.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The perception in Afghanistan and people in government think that perhaps, perhaps all this talk is to create a caretaker government of which he will then become the viceroy,&#8221; he said, referring to a politically loaded term in South Asia as it was the title of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/03\/15\/591078\/US-Afghanistan-Khalilzad-Taliban-talks-Qatar\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and Afghanistan have clashed publicly over Washington\u2019s decision to exclude Kabul from its ongoing peace talks with the Taliban, a move that a senior Afghan official says is aimed at \u201cdelegitimizing\u201d the Afghan government. National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib, who was on a visit to the US, said Thursday that US peace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}