Taliban, Afghan officers hold ‘reconciliation’ talks in Qatar

QNA didn't determine the officers participating within the talks, that it aforementioned began on weekday, citing the foreign ministry official Yousif al-Sada.

Officials of the Afghan government and also the Afghan religious movement can hold 2 days of “reconciliation” talks in Qatar, the Gulf country’s state news organization has according, though either side have wanted to downplay expectations from the meeting.

The dialogue are going to be through open discussions concerning the Afghan reconciliation between all parties in Asian nation,” the agency aforementioned. in a very statement, the Afghan religious movement earlier known eight people that would participate within the talks. However, they aforementioned the discussions “should not be misconstrued as peace or negotiation talks”.

The Afghan presidential voice, Ajmal Abidy, aforementioned members of the country’s High Peace Council would attend the talks in Bida in their “personal capability only”.

“It is value mentioning that each one participants of this conference attend in a private capability, nobody participates as representatives for any government or party,” the statement aforementioned. “Since this can be a hunt conference, therefore, each participant offers their opinion on a variety of problems.”

They will meet face to face,” Abidy told news organization the Associated Press. “Nothing goes on. we've no expectations.”Previous efforts to launch peace talks have unsuccessful.

The raising of the flag sparked immediate outrage from the then-president of Asian nation, Hamid Karzai, and the US, derailing talks and eventually leading the religious movement to shutter the workplace.

In 2013, the Afghan religious movement opened AN workplace in Qatar for the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”, hoisting identical flag flown throughout the Taliban’s five-year rule of Asian nation that over with the 2001 US-led invasion.

While the workplace ne'er formally opened, Qatar has become an area to open channel communication with the religious movement.

Qatari intermediaries helped United States officers discuss the discharge of the captive United States army’s Sgt Bowe Bergdahl last year, yankee officers have aforementioned.

Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, WHO was electoral last year, has pushed for peace talks with the religious movement.