Two senior Trump administration officials indicated Tuesday that the Taliban has yet to fully cut ties with al-Qaida, which the Taliban had agreed to do as part of an agreement with the United States.
The Taliban have taken some “positive steps, but they have some distance still to go” to meet the conditions laid out in February’s agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States’s special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, told Congress on Tuesday.
The Taliban are so far “not fully compliant” with respect to their commitments, “so we have work to be done there,” said David Helvey, the Pentagon official currently performing the duties of the assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs. Story continuesAsked by New Jersey Democrat Rep. Tom Malinowski whether it would violate the agreement if the Taliban worked with al-Qaida inside Pakistan, rather than in Afghanistan, Khalilzad said that the United States “would regard it as a violation, but the agreement is about Afghanistan.” That meant, said Malinowski, “that the agreement does not preclude them from cooperating with al-Qaida to attack Americans from Pakistan.
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