{"id":34162,"date":"2021-07-18T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/18\/british-generals-discreet-effort-to-revive-afghan-peace-negotiations"},"modified":"2021-07-18T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T05:15:20","slug":"british-generals-discreet-effort-to-revive-afghan-peace-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34162","title":{"rendered":"British general\u2019s \u2018discreet\u2019 effort to revive Afghan peace negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Sir Nick Carter has been arranging meetings with contacts in Kabul and Pakistan to try to prevent a descent into civil war<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s top general, Sir Nick Carter, has been using his personal connections with Afghan and Pakistan leaders in a behind-the-scenes effort to stop Afghanistan sliding into full-blown civil war, and help bolster stalling US-brokered peace talks in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>At the weekend a senior Afghan delegation arrived in Doha to try to restart the virtually dormant negotiations, after months which have seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/13\/afghanistan-stunned-by-scale-and-speed-of-security-forces-collapse\" title=\"\">Taliban sweep across much of rural Afghanistan<\/a>, although they still do not hold any cities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/18\/british-generals-discreet-effort-to-revive-afghan-peace-negotiations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Sir Nick Carter has been arranging meetings with contacts in Kabul and Pakistan to try to prevent a descent into civil warBritain\u2019s top general, Sir Nick Carter, has been using his personal connections with Afghan and Pakistan leaders in a behi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34163,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34162\/revisions\/34163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}