A Taliban delegation met U.S. special representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khal...
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON - A Taliban delegation met U.S. special representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad for more than an hour on Thursday, two sources told Reuters, the first known contact between the sides since U.S. President Donald Trump called off talks last month.
However the meeting in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad did not represent a resumption of formal negotiations, official sources cautioned. “They were due to meet Zalmay Khalilzad. I think that might have happened. I’m hoping that they have met,” he said on Friday. Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, would not confirm or deny that Taliban had met Khalilzad, adding that the Taliban delegation was still in Islamabad for meetings on Friday.
The U.S. government told Kabul that Khalilzad planned to meet the Taliban in Islamabad, a senior Afghan government source said.
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