Afghanistan Tells Taliban: Peace Or We Will 'Fight'

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Afghanistan Tells Taliban: Peace Or We Will 'Fight'
October 01, 2019

As the smoke gradually cleared from an Afghan presidential election riled by Taliban threats over the weekend, the country's national-security adviser, Hamdullah Mohib, issued a message to the hard-line Islamic insurgents that the government won’t back down from them.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly's general debate in New York on September 30, Mohib said: "To the Taliban and their foreign sponsors, hear this now, a message from the Afghan people: Join us in peace, or we will continue to fight. This is a fight we can win."

For the Afghan people, Mohib said, "peace is our common objective, and terrorists are our common enemy."

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