Taliban recalls negotiators from Afghanistan after suspending prisoner exchange talks

The Taliban on Tuesday recalled the insurgent group's negotiators from Afghanistan hours after they suspended talks on a prisoner exchange process with the Afghan government, a spokesman for the hardline Islamist group said in a tweet.

Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for Taliban political office in Qatar said: "the intentional delays in the release of our prisoners violate the peace agreement, therefore we call our technical team back from Kabul".