...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
group has termed the preliminary talks with the US officials as ’very useful’ and has promised to elect a delegation for the formal talks if some progress was made during the initial stage, it has been reported.
"The negotiations are at initial stage ... and both sides discussed options to pave the way for future contacts and meetings," a Taliban official has told Daily Times.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the Taliban official further added that the talks were held in a ’very cordial atmosphere and both sides had useful exchanges’, he added.
In the meantime, sources have said that the head of Taliban office Maulvi Sher Abbas Stanekzai led the Taliban team in talks, who called for removal of UN restrictions on Taliban leaders and recognition of their office in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...Taliban will set up another delegation for formal dialogue if preliminary talks make some progress, sources added.
Taliban political office in Qatar was opened in 2013 but was closed just days after then president Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
...Former president of Aghanistan, part of the problem not part of the solution...
criticized the group for hoisting a white flag.