The FINANCIAL — The deal, signed by U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and the Taliban’s political chief, Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday, aims to end America’s longest war, but Afghanistan’s president publicly rejected the timeline for a prisoner swap with the Taliban on Sunday, just one day after signing a peace deal. The confusion over their fate stems in part from a difference in language between a statement released by the US on Saturday in Kabul, and the US-Taliban agreement. A landmark deal between the United States and Taliban aimed at ending the US’s longest war may…
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