Ashraf Ghani rushes to Donald Trump as US nears peace deal with Taliban

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will fly to Washington tomorrow to meet his American counterpart Donald Trump after Kabul expressed discontent over the US-Taliban deal which is 'agreed in principle'.

Quoting sources, Tolo News reported that Ghani will be accompanied by a 13-member delegation.

His visit also comes as Americans were still pushing for intra-Afghan negotiations before the September 28 presidential elections in Afghanistan.

Earlier this week, the American special envoy for Afghan peace, Zalmay Khalilzad, shared "key details" of the US-Taliban draft agreement with Ghani, after almost a year of negotiations with the group.

The development came after an initial meeting held in the evening upon his arrival from Qatar, where the ninth round of US-Taliban talks concluded over the weekend.

The negotiations focused on the withdrawal of thousands of US troops from the war-torn country in exchange for guarantees by the Taliban not to allow the country to be used as a base for attacks abroad.