Senior Taliban leaders meet with Pakistan’s foreign minister in Islamabad as part of a push to revive an Afghanistan peace deal discussed in months of U.S.-Taliban talks before those negotiations collapsed.
In this photo released by the Foreign Office, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, center, receives members of Taliban delegation at the Foreign Office in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. Senior Taliban leaders are meeting with Qureshi in Islamabad as part of a push to revive an Afghanistan peace deal that has included stops in Russia, China and Iran.
The visit by the Afghan Taliban leaders coincided with that of Washington’s special peace envoy for Afghanistan, who was also in Islamabad on Thursday for “consultations” with Pakistani officials. The 12-member team is headed by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder of the Taliban and head of their political office in Qatar. They met with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the country’s intelligence chief Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed, foreign secretary Sohail Mahmood and other officials.U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad had spent the last year negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban, which seemed imminent until Sept.
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