United States (US) special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad on June 7 said that in the present scenario two options remain for Afghanistan a political solution to the conflict or continued war, reports Tolo News. He reiterated that the United States will not abandon Afghanistan despite US troops leaving. Zalmay Khalilzad said that attempting a military solution will result in a continued war, while also acknowledging that the peace process in Doha has been slow and that both sides of the negotiations have not focused on the main issues. Khalilzad said the two conditions of Taliban including release of 7,000 more prisoners by the Afghan government as well as the removal of their leaders’ names from the blacklist are not practical given the current circumstances in which violence remains high in the country. Khalilzad said that the Taliban has not responded to a US plan for Afghanistan’s future after it was shared with them, and they have not returned a plan in response to the United States. “Some Taliban negotiators, including their chief negotiator Shaikh Hakim, went to Quetta and had some discussions, and have returned now and say they are interested in the resumption of the talks in the near future, and that they might submit their plan to the Republic delegation,” Khalilzad said.