prisoners release was a key condition for the taliban to stop peace talks will this now happen and how lockley does pace look. so this is exactly the issue so when president addressed the lawyer on the 1st day on friday he said we're at a crossroads we you know we've been given an ultimatum by the where we free these 400 prisoners and within a few days to 3 days we begin in on talks or we don't free them and the war gets much worse so now the ball is really in the court of the government to actually release these prisoners the president said he will sign the order today so within the next day or 2 they should be freed and then if the tall of on the stand to their word and by the next 2 or 3 days the talks should begin of course after this is a long wrote because then the talks will break down into issues of cease fires or how the government will look into all of the government will be in any number of issues but this is probably the most important step and actually is the most important step because it's the 1st time that the government and. from each other in an official capacity. thank you.

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