Special envoy Khalilzad will head to Qatar to join negotiations with the Taliban. The U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad held discussions on Monday with a senior Afghan official in Kabul over ways to accelerate the peace process, before heading to Qatar, where negotiations with Taliban representatives are ongoing. The State Department said on Sunday that Mr. Khalilzad and his team were visiting Kabul and Qatar. On Monday, Mr. Khalilzad discussed the peace process with Abdullah Abdullah, the chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation. “Development of the peace process, accelerating the process and the assessment of the Doha peace agreement by the U.S. new administration were main topics of the discussion,” said Fraidoon Khwazoon, a spokesman for Mr. Abdullah.

Source: The Hindu March 01, 2021 16:26 UTC