As the release of 400 high-value Taliban prisoners begins, President Ashraf Ghani in a conversation with the Council on Foreign Relations on Thursday said that those who are released might pose a danger to Afghanistan, the United States and the world, but that it was necessary for peace.

A number of civil society institutions, the family members of the war victims, and other Kabul residents on Friday protested Pakistan’s policies towards Afghanistan and accused the neighboring country of 'promoting terrorism in Afghanistan.'