Taliban reject Afghan offer to free 1,500 prisoners before talks

The Taliban were going to release 1,000 Afghan military prisoners in exchange for their 5,000.

The offer of 1,500 was a good start in my opinion and the Taliban had an equal opportunity to release 200 or 1/5 of their hostages.

That they have taken this hard line means that they have foolishly overestimated their own position, or they are bluffing, or they genuinely feel strong enough to do this.

No signed agreement by the Afghanistan government, and therefore no immediate release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners, is a no brainer. It would be suicide, a gesture of supreme weakness, to release so many back into the wild.

In the meantime the US is busily going through the motions of removing their troops and equipment.

The Taliban has no shortage of suicide bombers. The Taliban will use its suicide bombers and attack Government and civilian until they completely controlled the country. I don't think there will be reduced violent attack on Government and civilian even if the President Ghani has ordered to release all 5000 Taliban prisoners. Releasing 5000 Taliban prisoners will be it own risk for the Ghani Government. The Taliban does not have its own goodwill gesture and the Taliban was barbaric and murderer.

The Taliban was hard to defeat because Taliban soldiers do not wear uniforms. So the Afghan and the coalition soldiers do not know who was the Taliban unless they were coming under attacked by the Taliban. If the Taliban soldiers died in the village or near the village from the US led Coalition's bombing and then the US and Afghan Government to pay compensation to family. All men in the village can be Taliban soldiers, but they will disguise as farmers and husband when the Afghan soldiers and the coalition soldiers come to the village.

The IED and Suicide bombers are No, 1 weapon for the Taliban. The 5000 Taliban prisoners will be Taliban soldiers again after release from the Prison. The Current Afghan Government will be gone after the US and coalition Army withdraw from the Afghanistan.