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| Afghan Taliban's Doha office revived: Pakistan officials |
| 2015-02-21 |
| [DAWN] The Afghan Taliban's office in Doha has been revived and the Taliban are now holding initial talks with the Afghan government, with Pakistain acting as controller, Dawn has learnt. A top Pak official privy to the expected dialogue between Afghan Taliban and Afghan government confirmed the resumption of initial contacts between the two parties for devising the rules and agenda of formal talks expected to begin in March 2015. "Yes I can confirm Taliban's Doha office has been revived and now with the facilitation of Pakistain, Afghan Taliban are holding initial talks with senior Afghan government officials to chalk out the strategy and set rules for formal talks," the official told Dawn on condition of anonymity. Another official said Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif had given the green signal for facilitating the resumption of dialogue when he met Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. in Kabul earlier this week. |
| Posted by:Fred |