A busy part of kabul it came on the 1st day of official campaigning for the president ial vote is a former head of afghanistans Main Intelligence Agency and is regarded as one of the talibans fiercest opponents and president ashraf ghani kicked off his bid for another term by announcing that peace is coming and promising to start talks with the taliban but the group has already rejected his peace ministers claim that direct talks to be held in the next 2 weeks. All have it very dark is a lecture of government and politics at cardon university and he says it is important for the Afghan Government to be seen as focusing on more than just the upcoming election. So this is not the 1st time the government has announced that they will go into direct talks with the taliban and perhaps this is not the last time and every time they have talked about going into direct talks with the taliban the taliban have flatly rejected it and did the statement that came out from the taliban was basically say
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Bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Im anna edwards. Greece cross the first of many hurdles today by paying its obligation to the imf. What is next for the country that is still locked up in talks with creditors over reforms . For more, we are joined by manus cranny in paris at the same event as greeces finance minister, yanis varoufakis. Now that this bill has been paid, will greece make it this month . What is the next crunch time . Hopefully so. There is one billion still to be rolled over next week. There is the 1. 5 billion euros to be paid in pensions. Greece hasnt had any Financial Aid since last august. It has been depleting cash reserves quickly and heavily. Theres not much left in the greek offers. Thats for sure. The republic has been tapping reserves from every source imaginable. There hasnt been a very heavy burden from the payments front. I think that was a technicality. The greek republic will not default on that debt. I think the april 24 meeting of the eurogrou