The US condemns the attack on Fawzia Kufi, member of the Afghan government’s negotiating team, and calls on the parties to begin inter-Afghan talks as soon as possible. About this in Twitter said the US special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad on Sunday, August 16.
Khalilzad called on all parties seeking peace not only to condemn the attack, but also to speed up the peace process and begin inter-Afghan negotiations as soon as possible. He also called the attack on Kufi a “vile and criminal act” committed by persons interested in disrupting the peace process in the country.
According to RIA Novosti, a group of armed men attacked Kufi in the vicinity of Kabul. It is noted that the woman received minor injuries. The incident occurred a few days before the alleged start of the inter-Afghan talks in Doha.
At the beginning of the year, the United States and the Taliban, banned in Russia, signed a peace agreement. According to which, the American side was to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan from 12 thousand to 8.6 thousand people within 135 days, and then continue the withdrawal of its military contingent and NATO forces within 14 months.
The military operation in Afghanistan has been going on since October 2001. At the peak of the campaign in 2010-2013, the number of Western forces in this country exceeded 150 thousand. The main combat forces of the United States and NATO were withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2014.