Taliban say no pact struck with U.S. over deadline to end Afghan war

KABUL: A three-day meeting between the Taliban and the U.S. unique agent for Afghanistan to prepare for harmony talks finished with no understanding, the activist gathering said multi day after the ambassador pronounced a due date of April 2019 to end a 17-year-long war.

Afghanistan's security circumstance has declined since NATO formally finished battle tasks in 2014, as Taliban agitators fight to reimpose strict laws following their oust in 2001 on account of U.S.- driven troops.

Pioneers of the hardline gathering met U.S. exceptional agent Zalmay Khalilzad at their political central station in Qatar a week ago for the second time in the previous month, said representative Zabiullah Mujahid.

"These were primer talks and no assention was come to on any issue," he said in an announcement on Monday.

Taliban pioneers had not acknowledged any due date set by the U.S. to wrap up talks, three Taliban authorities included.

The U.S government office in Kabul declined to remark.

Khalilzad, an Afghan-conceived US representative approved by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to lead harmony transactions with the Taliban, on Sunday said he wanted to cut a harmony manage the gathering by April 20.

That due date concurs with the date set for presidential races in Afghanistan.

Two senior U.S. authorities affirmed that the second round of harmony talks finished a week ago and the Taliban anticipated that Khalilzad would visit Qatar for a gathering before the finish of 2018.

"The second round of talks continued for three days. This unmistakably demonstrates the two sides are practicing persistence and alert amid their political commitment," a U.S. official said on state of obscurity.

However, Khalilzad's open explanation that the Taliban trust they will "not win militarily" infuriated senior individuals from the gathering, who cautioned U.S. authorities against blended messages that could tangle the harmony procedure.

"We were flabbergasted to see Khalilzad's announcement in Kabul on Sunday. He wrongly cited us, saying that the Taliban conceded that militarily we would not succeed," said a senior Taliban part in Afghanistan.

Another senior part said Khalilzad's methodology to proclaim a due date demonstrated how frantic the U.S. was to pull back remote powers. "Taliban pioneers have not consented to any due date since we are winning on all fronts," he included.

The Taliban "are not losing" in Afghanistan, Gen. Joseph Dunford, the best U.S. military officer, said a week ago.

"We utilized the term stalemate a year prior and, generally, it has not changed much," he told a security gathering.

The NATO-drove Resolute Support mission includes 41 countries contributing in excess of 12,000 warriors, hardware and preparing for Afghan powers.

The Taliban have reinforced their hold in the course of recent years, with the legislature in Kabul controlling only 56 percent of the nation, down from 72 percent in 2015, a U.S. government report demonstrated for the current month.