President Ashraf Ghani’s Special Representative on Regional Affairs for Consensus on Peace, Mohammad Umer Daudzai, has expressed hopes the war that has ravaged Afghanistan for over 17 years and cost the United States about US$1 trillion will end in 2019.

 Daudzai summed up his optimism in an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, saying: “We are naming 2019 as a year of peace for Afghanistan.”

 In this episode of Farakhabar, host Sadaf Amiri discusses the topic with the following guests:

Sayed Abdul Qayoum Sajjadi, MP

Dr. Mohammad Omar Samad, political analyst