Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani wants his government to be “the decision-maker” in any peace deal involving the US and the Taliban.
In a television interview with Afghan opposition politicians and Taliban representatives in Moscow, Ghani said no peace deal between the Taliban and the United States could be finalised without involving his government.
His government has so far been shut out of the evolving peace talks between Taliban negotiators and US envoys to end more than 17 years of war, with the hardline Islamist movement branding his government a US puppet.