Envoy: 'Russian leadership’ decides to delist Taliban as terrorist group

ISLAMABAD — Russia reported Friday that a "principal decision" had already been made to remove Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban from Moscow’s list of terrorist organizations. Zamir Kabulov, the Russian presidential envoy for the South Asian nation, was quoted by state-run TASS news agency as saying that the foreign ministry and national security agencies "are putting finishing legal touches" on the Taliban's delisting in line with federal laws. "A principal decision on this has already been made by the Russian leadership," said Kabulov.