The US President Donald Trump has said that he will reduce the number of US troops from 14,000 to 8,600 as the Taliban negotiators insist on the complete withdrawal of the American and other NATO forces form the country in their talks with the US Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad in Doha over the past several months.

“We’re going down to 8,600 [troops] and then we’ll make a determination from there as to what happens,” Fox News Radio cited Trump on Thursday.

Trump also confirmed that negotiators are working on a US troop drawdown in Afghanistan, but offered assurances that the US will keep a “presence” in the country.

In this program, host Yaser Abrar discusses the topic with following panelists.

Khalid Pashtun, former MP

Mawlana Farid, political analyst