President Ashraf Ghani on March 1, disclosed that “there is no commitment on the release of the 5,000 prisoners” of the Taliban, reports Tolo News. “The release of prisoners is not the United States authority, but it is the authority of the government of Afghanistan,” President Ghani said. According to the US-Taliban deal and the joint Afghan-United States (US) declaration, up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners should be released by March 10, in order to facilitate the intra-Afghan negotiations with the Taliban. Further, President Ghani criticised the deal and said, “an agreement that is signed behind closed doors will have basic problems in its implementation tomorrow.”